Shadow chancellor’s Mao Zedong quote in response to George Osborne’s spending review did not make it into the video on his official pageThe moment John McDonnell quoted from Mao Zedong’s Little Red Book when responding to George Osborne’s spending review has been slice from the speech uploaded to his official YouTube channel after prompting mass ridicule.
The shadow chancellor pulled out a copy of the late Chinese communist leader’s book to make a point approximately Osborne’s relationship with China, read out a passage and then threw it across the table of the house.
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Source: theguardian.com