British-Palestininan MP Layla Moran said Good Morning Britain's Richard Madeley's 'insensitive' question about Hamas came from 'a place of ignorance' as she revealed she accepted his apology.
GMB viewers called for Madeley to be fired from the daytime show as they slammed his "appalling" question earlier this week. Madeley and his co-star Susanna Reid were joined in the ITV studio by Moran, Liberal Democrat MP for Oxford West & Abingdon, as Moran discussed her relatives being stuck in Gaza. However, one question Madeley asked her left her open-mouthed, as he questioned whether she knew what was going to happen in Gaza before it did.
"With your family connections in Gaza, did you have any indication of what was going to happen ten days ago, two weeks ago? Was there there any word on the street?", he asked, leaving Moran lost for words. "Not this, not this," she replied, clearly shocked by his questioning, before adding: "Everyone, everyone has been surprised first of all by the timing and sophistication and the way that it's happened. What I will say is that I've been warning, and others have in Parliament as well for a number of years now, that if we don't find a way..."
Madeley asked whether she had 'any indication of what was going to happen' (ITV)A GMB spokesperson said Madeley was "sorry that he upset viewers" during the segment and added that the presenter "did not mean to imply that she or her family might have had any prior knowledge of the attacks."
Moran announced she accepted his apology and didn't want the ignorant question to distract people from what's important.
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Speaking about the interview during an appearance on Sky News’ Politics Hub programme on Wednesday, she explained: "I think my face at the time looked pretty flummoxed. Look, the conversation as a whole over the 15-minute interview was an important one. We were looking at how we got here, where we go.
"I didn’t feel and don’t feel that it came from a place of malice. I think it, frankly, came from a place of, perhaps, ignorance. Perhaps it reminds us that in this conflict, which is complicated – this is not the slam dunk in a way that Russia-Ukraine was – this has a long history that needs to be understood and this has an important context in the wider region that needs to be understood.
"I have accepted his apology. The main thing is that I don’t want it to distract from these big issues."
On Monday, Moran spoke in Parliament about her extended family living in Gaza. Their house was bombed by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) and they had been staying in a church as they were 'too old' to flee the 25-mile strip.
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