"I am not a Bangladeshi Citizen" - Tulip Siddique
- 6 years ago
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/nov/29/channel-4-news-complains-to-labour-over-tulip-siddiqs-threat
The Labour MP Tulip Siddiq has apologised for comments she made to a Channel 4 News producer about having a difficult childbirth.
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After a heated confrontation with the Channel 4 News reporter Alex Thomson, Siddiq said to his producer, Daisy Ayliffe, who is pregnant: “Thanks Daisy for coming. Hope you have a great birth because child labour is hard.”
In his report, Thomson called Siddiq’s comments “apparently threatening”.
The programme’s editor, Ben de Pear, later said he had complained to the MP and the Labour party.
In a statement published on Twitter, Siddiq said: “I want to apologise unreservedly for my comments to Channel 4’s producer, which were an offhand and ill-judged attempt to deal with what I felt was a hostile situation. I would never want to upset her and I hope she accepts my apology.”
Thomson tried to ask Siddiq about the case of Ahmad bin Quasem, a British-trained barrister in prison in Bangladesh, while she was at a rally in support of the jailed British-Iranian woman Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.
Siddiq’s aunt is Sheikh Hasina Wazed, the prime minister of Bangladesh, and Channel 4 News said it had previously tried to contact the Labour MP about the case of Bin Quasem, who human rights organisations say was abducted by state security forces.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/nov/29/channel-4-news-complains-to-labour-over-tulip-siddiqs-threat
The Labour MP Tulip Siddiq has apologised for comments she made to a Channel 4 News producer about having a difficult childbirth.
Sign up to the Media Briefing: news for the news-makers
Read more
After a heated confrontation with the Channel 4 News reporter Alex Thomson, Siddiq said to his producer, Daisy Ayliffe, who is pregnant: “Thanks Daisy for coming. Hope you have a great birth because child labour is hard.”
In his report, Thomson called Siddiq’s comments “apparently threatening”.
The programme’s editor, Ben de Pear, later said he had complained to the MP and the Labour party.
In a statement published on Twitter, Siddiq said: “I want to apologise unreservedly for my comments to Channel 4’s producer, which were an offhand and ill-judged attempt to deal with what I felt was a hostile situation. I would never want to upset her and I hope she accepts my apology.”
Thomson tried to ask Siddiq about the case of Ahmad bin Quasem, a British-trained barrister in prison in Bangladesh, while she was at a rally in support of the jailed British-Iranian woman Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.
Siddiq’s aunt is Sheikh Hasina Wazed, the prime minister of Bangladesh, and Channel 4 News said it had previously tried to contact the Labour MP about the case of Bin Quasem, who human rights organisations say was abducted by state security forces.