WATCH: Umunna and Murnaghan’s live on-air row

Umunna Sky news

Chuka Umunna and Sky News presenter Dermot Murnaghan were involved in a heated row live on air today, after Murnaghan began probing the Shadow Business Secretary on a letter sent to mosques in England. Perhaps understandably, Umunna wasn’t best pleased to be put on the spot about something completely different to the topic he’d actually been invited on to talk about. Here’s the exchange:

Sky News seem quite keen to share this video, but we’re not sure they come out of it particularly well…

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