Robert Jenrick swears live on GMB as he loses temper in ITV meltdown

Robert Jenrick was told off by an irate Kate Garraway for swearing live on Good Morning Britain during a row about David Lammy. The deputy PM refused five times to answer a question about the accidental release of prisoners from HMP Wandsworth - and Jenrick wasn't holding back as he slammed the farce as "total b******t".

Live on the ITV programme, Jenrick said: "I thought it was one of the most shambolic performances by a senior cabinet minister I've ever seen. And worse than that, you had David Lammy finding out the night before that a convicted sex offender, illegal migrant, had been accidentally released from a prison and was on the streets of London, that that happened six days earlier and yet the Met Police hadn't been informed.

"What did he do? We're told he went out to buy a suit the next morning instead of trying to lead the response. And then he came to parliament and essentially tried to conceal this.

Garraway mused: "David Lammy's argument [was] that he didn't want to release it before it was official and so the argument you're giving for the Conservatives could well have been in David Lammy's mind: 'Maybe I'd better not say'."

But Jenrick went in for the kill, fuming: "Well Kate it's very early in the morning and your viewers are still having their breakfast, but that, I'm afraid if you excuse my language, is total b******t."

Stepping in, Kate said: "Don't swear. Don't swear. Mr Jenrick, you made some serious points. I'm just going to apologise on your behalf to children watching because we know they watch this programme.

"Please don't swear again because you'll get us all into trouble."