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Tory minister Nicky Morgan branded Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell 'terrorist sympathisers' tonight for opposing air strikes in Syria.

Her words echoed David Cameron 's slur, reportedly made in a private meeting ahead of last night's vote.

She made the comment on the BBC's Question Time programme, drawing gasps and boos from the crowd.

An audience member said she was offended by the Prime Minister's slur , and asked if she looked like a terrorist sympathiser to the Tory Education Secretary.

Nicky Morgan replied: "No, but Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell do."

She went on to say: " Jeremy Corbyn said, in June of this year he talked about 'our friends in Hezbollah.' John McDonnell talked about 'the bombs and the bullets and the sacrifice of the IRA'.

"And last week on this programme, Ken Livingstone, the leader of [Labour's] defence review, talked about people who 'gave their lives', the bombers.

"What about the people who lost their lives?"

Labour's Diane Abbott replied: "These are old smears and they do not detract from the fact that in my view, and in the view of millions of British people, the House of Commons made the wrong decision."

Morgan Shot back: "That's a perfectly honourable position to have, Diane, to have voted against the motion, the Prime Minister made that very, very clear.

"But those are two statements, and another one that Ken Livingstone made on this programme last week."

David Cameron was asked more than 15 times to apologise for his comments during the ten-hour debate on military action in Syria.

He refused to do so.