MPS WERE slammed for “foaming at the mouth with ill-informed comments on Venezuela” at the Scottish TUC Congress today where delegates overwhelmingly endorsed a motion urging the Scottish government to condemn US interference in the Latin-American country.

Clydebank TUC delegate Tam Morrison said there were Blairite, Tory and SNP MPs who had referred to Venezuela in “terms straight from the Pentagon think tank.”

He told the hall that “MPs who have shown zero interest in that country” had been “foaming at the mouth with ill-informed comments on Venezuela.”