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.
          
                                
          
         
                                    
      
    
    
      Mark Ferguson
          
          Mark Ferguson is the Labour MP for Gateshead Central and Whickham, and was the editor of LabourList from 2010 to 2015.
        
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