Labour MP called a thug after fourletter insult

Veteran left-wing Labour politician Dennis Skinner has defended calling an SNP MP a “piece of s**t” amid a deepening row between the two parties over how to tackle Theresa May over Brexit.

The SNP’S Stewart Mcdonald complained to the Commons Speaker after Mr Skinner insulted him in an emergency debate on the Government’s delayed Brexit vote.

Glasgow South MP said: “It’s becoming an almost daily occurrence. The most minor criticism or even suggestion that Corbyn isn’t getting something right leads to increasingly angry and abusive chastising from him. He is a romanticised thug.”

Mrskinner,whohasbeen MP for Bolsover since 1970, previously clashed with the SNP over seating in the Commons chamber after their numbers swelled in 2015. He has been suspended from the Commons several times, including when he called David Cameron “dodgy” and made allegations about George Osborne taking cocaine.

Mr Skinner is also famed for quips at the State Opening of Parliament. Following the incident, he said: “[Mr Mcdonald] attacks Jeremy Corbyn every time he stands up and I’ve told him before he is part of the opposition and he should concentrate on attacking the real enemy. I just put them in their place.”