He's insisted that his criticism had nothing to do with Diane Abbott's gender nor the colour of her skin.

And he is rightly apologised.

But he's also not denying that he said that an MP should be shot.

Hello and welcome to The Trawl where we scroll through social media.

So you don't have to.

I'm Gemma Forte.

And I'm Marina Perkis and I think the UK might need a lie down because there is so much going on in the world,

both here, in the US, of course, most disturbing me in the Middle East. And yet, and yet,

what was it that dominated social media? days it was a picture of kate

middleton ofs which at time of record has had on the prince and princess of wales's twitter account

ex account wait for it 84 million views i, am I the only person that doesn't

give a stuff? In a nutshell, Marina. Yes, you are. And actually, you know, this tweet spoke to me.

It was at Kara Lizette, who wrote it, and she wrote, I'm not generally into conspiracy theories,

but this Kate Middleton

photo has got me feeling like a flat earther. And actually, I have got stuff that I'd like to say

about this. And there, I mean, some of the tweets have been extraordinary. So we're recording two

episodes today. And so, Marino, I am going to force you to talk about Kate Gate with me in the

second episode, whether you like it or not. But also, you know what, variety. And it's also,

you know, our duty because, you know, we all social media. And as you say, that is the thing

that everybody's been going on about. And we're obviously going to cover as well, Lee Anderson's

defection to reform, which is insanely ridiculous in a very different way. Okay. I do concede. I understand

this is the nature of the trawl, so fine. You know, I'll go with it because I know you're going to

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