Lisa Nandy fell apart as she was quizzed by Kay Burley about Labour’s new bill on Sky News.
Earlier in the month, Labour ministers unveiled the Employment Rights Bill, which aims to tackle low pay and poor working conditions.
Within the bill are a series of reforms, including the right to statutory sick pay from the first day of illness, the right to flexible working and granting workers protection from unfair dismissal from the first day of their employment.
On Thursday’s instalment (October 24) of her Sky News breakfast show, Burley probed Nandy on who will benefit from this bill.
Burley, 63, asked Nandy to give her a definition of a working person, to which she responded: “I think about the factory workers and people who are driving busses in my constituency.