Appearing on ITV’s Loose Women, the PM told presenter Myleene Klass he ‘would call it out’ when asked about the US President”s language onboard Air Force One
Keir Starmer quizzed on Trump’s comments on Loose Women
Keir Starmer has been quizzed on Donald Trump’s vile “piggy” insult to a female reporter onboard Air Force One last month.
Appearing on ITV’s Loose Women, the PM told presenter Myleene Klass he “would call it out” when asked about the language – and said he would not let someone speak to his daughter or colleague in the way the US President spoke to the journalist.
Mr Trump barked “Quiet! Quiet, piggy” at Bloomberg’s Catherine Lucey when she asked him a question en route to Washington on Air Force One in November. She had asked the US President about his name being mentioned in emails sent by paedophile Jeffrey Epstein as part of a 22,000-document trove released by Congress last week.
Today, Loose Women’s Klass asked Mr Starmer: “Well you know someone very close, you know, one of our closest allies, shall we say, recently used language ‘Quiet, piggy’. Would you allow for someone to speak to your daughter, your wife or your colleagues in the way that Trump spoke to a female journalist?”
The PM replied: “No, I wouldn’t, I absolutely wouldn’t.” Quizzed on whether he would class that as misogyny, he replied: “I would call it out. But I would also say part of the stuff we’re doing in teenagers is talking about behaviours they might not think are problematic but in fact are.”
Mr Starmer’s appearance on the programme came as the government launched its landmark violence against women and girls strategy on Thursday.
Pressed on whether there is also misogyny at Westminster, Mr Starmer also told the Loose Women today: “There is undoubtedly misogyny at Westminster, I think it’s everywhere. I doubt in truth there are many people across the country who don’t know somebody who’s been subject to abuse.”
Home Office minister Jess Phillips, who launched the strategy, told MPs today the full force of the state will be unleashed to tackle the issue.
She listed a number of measures, including making the UK “one of the hardest places for children to access harmful content and misogynistic influences online”.
She said so-called “nudification” tools, which allow users to strip clothes from those in photographs, will be banned. The Government will also work with tech companies to make it impossible for children to take, view or share nude images through “nudity detection filters”.