She reportedly referred to two sharks who were sick of eating tuna and so one said: "Let's go to Morecambe for a Chinese."Insensitive, definitely. But racist?
Mr Howard said: "Ann Winterton's remarks about the tragic deaths in Morecambe Bay were completely unacceptable. Such sentiments have no place in the Conservative Party...
Two years ago she was sacked as shadow rural affairs minister by then leader Iain Duncan Smith after she joked about Asians being "10 a penny" during a speech at a rugby club dinner in her constituency.
Saturday, February 28
The Beeb reports Tories disown cockler joke MP but won't say what it was. Yahoo-AFP reports:
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