00:00 What Lee said was wrong.
00:01 Go on, Minister, yes or no, was it Islamophobic?
00:04 It was wrong.
00:05 Was it Islamophobic?
00:07 You've had my answer, it was wrong.
00:09 Why can't you say the word?
00:11 Well, I don't think I'm here to come on and talk about definitions.
00:15 I'm very clear that the action was wrong,
00:17 that the words were wrong, and that as a result,
00:20 there was swift, robust and firm action,
00:24 and that was the right course of action within 24 hours.
00:26 Listen, if you want to contrast that with what happened up in Rochdale,
00:30 this was robust action that was taken,
00:32 it was right that that action was taken.
00:34 Every single minister that we've spoken to,
00:36 and that every other media outlet in this country has spoken to
00:39 in the last 48 hours, government minister and MP,
00:43 refuses to use the word Islamophobia.
00:45 Tory ministers.
00:46 Is there some instruction you've all been given
00:49 that you're not allowed to say the I word?
00:51 No, it's not.
00:53 Well, can you say it then? Do you think that it was Islamophobic?
00:55 Yes, we know you said it was wrong,
00:57 but do you think it was Islamophobic, personally?
00:59 Yes or no?
01:01 Personally, I think it was wrong.
01:02 (laughs)
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