A Conservative minister has agreed to visit a pub in Ayrshire with an SNP MP.

Chris Grayling bet Patricia Gibson he could win over locals to Tory government plans to restrict Scottish MPs voting rights.

Now a Welsh MP has invited the Leader of the House to have a drink with voters in his constituency too.

The wager came as Mr Grayling answered questions on so-called ‘English votes for English laws’ in front of a Commons committee.

Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish politicians have protested that the plans would make them ‘second class MPs’.

Mr Grayling told Ms Gibson, the MP for North Ayrshire & Arran: “I am prepared to bet that if you and I went and had a drink in a pub in your constituency with a group of your constituents and set out for them what these proposals actually entail in the context of the enhanced devolution in Scotland I think that they would agree with me rather than you”.

Ms Gibson replied: “I will gladly take you up on that”.

Mr Grayling has also been invited to a visit a pub in Wales to set out his stall to people there.

Ian Lucas, the MP for Wrexham, who is also a member of the Commons Procedure Committee, said: “If he were capable of persuasion and of listening then I would welcome him.”