Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting has apologised to Jeremy Corbyn after saying the former Labour leader had “gone senile”.
The incident happened when Mr Corbyn, who now sits as an independent MP, tried to raise a point of order in the Commons after today’s Prime Minister’s Questions, but was rebuked by Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle.
When Mr Corbyn pushed again, Sir Lindsay asked the Labour frontbench what he was saying, and Mr Streeting replied: “He’s gone senile.”
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Figures on the left of the party attacked the remark on Twitter, with columnist Owen Jones calling it “gross” and Labour National Executive Committee (NEC) member Jess Barnard saying: “No one in our party should be using ageist and derogatory mental health slurs, least of all the shadow health secretary.”
SNP MP John Nicolson also said it was “wrong” to use the word senile as an “insult”, adding: “As someone whose mum had dementia I’m keen that mental…
