EU SAID WHAT?
Shadow minister Pat Glass labels a voter ‘a horrible racist’ for calling a Polish family ‘spongers’
Remain campaigner's attempts to get people to vote to stay in the EU have gone badly wrong
SHADOW Europe minister Pat Glass has branded a voter ‘racist’ for raising concerns about immigration from Eastern Europe.
During a campaign visit to Sawley in Derbyshire, where she was knocking on doors and supposed to be drumming up support for Remain, she was interviewed by BBC Radio Derby.
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At the end of the interview the North West Durham MP said: “The very first person I come to is a horrible racist.
"I’m never coming back to wherever this is.”
reports the man she is believed to have been referring to, in the clip above, talked to her about a Polish family in the area who he believed were living on benefits and said he described them as ‘spongers’.