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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.
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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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