With less than four weeks to go until polling day, tensions are running high between politicians from the two main parties. On the Andrew Marr Show, Michael Fallon and Emily Thornberry came to blows over Jeremy Corbyn’s links to the IRA.
When the Defence Secretary criticised Corbyn on this issue, the shadow foreign secretary hit back by citing the time Fallon had visited Assad in Syria after his re-election in 2007 (note: Jeremy Corbyn has also met Assad, so this is perhaps not the most effective attack line). However, Fallon’s riposte appeared to trigger Thornberry — who went on to turn the air blue live on television:
MF: There’s a huge moral difference between talking to other foreign leaders, and I meet them all the time as defence secretary, and Jeremy Corbyn’s quite open support for the IRA…
ET: That’s just not having open support for the IRA. You really can’t just go around making this stuff up.
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