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Rayner defends calling Tory ministers ‘scum’, saying leaving children hungry ‘scummy thing to do’ – live

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This is from the Labour backbencher Steve McCabe, pointing out that Angela Rayner is not the only MP in trouble this weekend over a remark deemed offensive.

All those Tories criticising Angela Rayner this morning should be made to comment on this.
Tory MP sorry for saying ‘a bomb’ should be planted in Labour politician’s office | Daily Mail Online https://t.co/RJzC30mqKT

This is what Angela Rayner told Sky’s Trevor Phillips on Sunday about why she called the Tories “scum” at a meeting last night. She said:

Anyone who leaves children hungry during a pandemic and can give billions of pounds to their mates on WhatsApp, I think that was pretty scummy.

Now that is a phrase, and let me contextualise it, it’s a phrase that you would hear very often in northern working-class towns. We’d even say it jovially to other people. And that to me is my street language …

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