Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell: 'I will not apologise for McVey comments'
John McDonnell has distanced himself from lynching comments about Esther McVey, in an interview with Good Morning Britain.
Speaking from Liverpool where the Labour Party Conference is taking place, Mr McDonnell also refused to retract his claims the ex-Tory minister was a 'stain on humanity'.
"When I called her a 'stain on humanity' in a Parliamentary debate, I was expressing deep deep anger and anguish as I had just met families who had lost loved ones as a result of policies she had implemented."
McDonnell was further probed by Piers Morgan about repeating calls for McVey to be 'lynched' from a public meeting in the Wirral constituency in 2014.
"I reported what was said," he said. "But I'm not apologising for the words I used in the Parliamentary debate."
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