A great spot from Alex Hern over at Left Foot Forward, as Edwina Currie returns to the airwaves to attack the poor. Edwina has form, as we’ve covered before – when she claimed that people didn’t go hungry, was taken to task by Owen Jones and attacked pensioners for making donations to charity.
I bet Tory HQ wish they could keep her off the air…
Here’s her latest appearance, where she manages to make someone cry on air.
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