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John McDonnell has insisted he did not hear a speaker he shared a protest stage with urging Theresa May to "shoot herself".

The Shadow Chancellor condemned the "unacceptable" language at a demo in London over the weekend.

A video emerged of Mr McDonnell on the side of a stage while a man said: "Our advice to her [the Prime Minister] is very, very simple advice: shoot yourself.

"And the reason why you should shoot yourself is because… we’ve have seen people lose their lives as a result of the Windrush scandal."

Video appeared to show Mr McDonnell applauding at the end.

However, today he said he "never heard" the "shoot herself" jibe - adding the language was "unacceptable".

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"To be honest I never heard it," he told the BBC.

"The person who was compering was talking to me while it was on.

"I never actually heard that.

"As soon as I heard it I made it absolutely clear that was unacceptable."

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The Shadow Chancellor added: "The speaker was talking about Windrush at the time.

"I understand people can get extremely emotional about that issue, we all can, but you cannot go into that sort of unacceptable language.

"We've got to remove this from politics altogether and we've all got to bear a responsibility for that."