Lucy Powell is facing a backlash today after insisting there were no warning signs about Russell Brand before his notorious 2015 interview with Ed Miliband.
The Cabinet minister admitted she ‘regrets’ helping to set up the publicity stunt for the then-Labour leader before the election.
But extraordinarily she argued in a round of interviews that there was no way of vetting the comedian because the ‘social media age’ had not happened.
The claim was derided by Tories who said Brand’s ‘gross behaviour’ was already ‘plain for all to see’ by that time.
They also called for Mr Miliband to be held ‘accountable’ over his decision to appear on
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