TalkTV's Mike Graham brands Labour MP 'bloody t***' in furious on-air clash

TalkTV's Mike Graham was forced to apologise after repeatedly fuming a Labour MP was a "t**t" while live on air. The programme host erupted into a furious rant against Chancellor Rachel Reeves' new "sidekick" Torsten Bell, who has been recruited to help with the upcoming autumn Budget. Best known for his campaign to scrap the pensions triple lock and to hike taxes for the middle classes, the move has caused plenty of controversy.

Erupting in a rant on his TalkTV show, Graham fumed: "[Reeves has] gone to Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland to try and prove that everything's going well, shaking hands with a bloke with no teeth, going 'Yes this is great, isn't it fantastic'. What is she thinking? This woman is completely and utterly useless.

"She's also promoted that complete and utter moron Torsten Bell, who everybody tells me is very important and incredibly intelligent. That's what they all say. Remember when they said Sue Gray was the greatest analyser of government policy in the world and she was going to chart the first 100 days and was a woman of great integrity? She didn't even last 100 days. 93 days she lasted! That was her own plan!"

Graham pointed out Bell had been the mastermind behind EdStone - the huge limestone tablet commissioned by Labour during the 2015 general election to promote then-leader Ed Miliband.

Continuing, he said: "The problem with politics in this country is myths are written by people who don't know anything about the real world. First of all his name is Torsten - that immediately disqualifies him in my view from being anybody sensible talking to the general public. I would lock him in a room and just not let him out. If he's that clever, let's see what he's actually come up with. What has he actually done that makes him clever?

"The guy is a moron. He came up with the EdStone. Retire, now! Don't even bother going near the rest of the human race because you're a complete bloody moron. I'd like to have him sitting here - he ran the Resolution Foundation where they went 'let's raise a load of taxes, anyone who makes any money just take it all off them and give it to some lowlife scumbags who don't want to work and maybe some migrants.'"

Summing up, Mike said angrily: "Lovely! Give the bloody t**t a Nobel Peace Prize. Who cares? Sorry but I'm in a bad mood. Sorry about the word t**t, it came out wrong. I wanted to say twit. There's another word that begins with W and ends in -er that I also wanted to say but I got away with t**t, sorry, I know it's early."