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Yvette Cooper, MP for Pontefract and Castleford, described the comments as an “outrageous and ignorant slur”.
“I’m proud to live in Castleford… it’s a great town with really strong and warm communities,” she said.
“If he’s too pathetic to cope with Yorkshire weather and Yorkshire life, it’s a good thing he’s run away home.”
