Javier Diez Canseco, a congressman-elect, said that one of the economists who drew up the president-elect's campaign platform, a leftist document, should have been named to run the Central Bank.
Mr Loughton questioned when the government became "discontent with the definition of marriage" and said most Tory MPs were "blissfully unaware" of an equalities document published during the 2010 election campaign which said Conservatives would consider the step of legalising gay marriage.