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Sack Young, Labour demands after a tweet of his is found making a sexual ‘joke’ about starving children

LABOUR told PM Theresa May to “show some leadership” and sack Toby Young today after he was found to have tweeted a sexual “joke” about starving children on Comic Relief.

The rightwinger’s appointment to the Office for Students universities regulator unleashed a barrage of criticism when his history of crude and sexist posts on social media was unearthed.

In the latest he claimed to have gone through five boxes of tissues “wanking” over Comic Relief.

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