Overview
- Shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick used profanity during a Thursday morning interview on ITV’s Good Morning Britain.
- Jenrick was criticising David Lammy’s handling of questions over the mistaken release of prisoners when he uttered the expletive.
- Presenter Kate Garraway interrupted, apologised to viewers including children, and asked him not to repeat the language.
- Jenrick referenced supposed police objections to Lammy speaking at the dispatch box, but the Met Police said they had no such objection.
- Viewers reacted in real time on X, commenting on the on-air gaffe and the presenter’s intervention.