Is it old-fashioned, is it pompous, to say that politicians need to think far more carefully about the language they use?

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A Reform councillor, the deputy leader of Lancashire County Council, who later apologised, shared a post about the Labour MP Natalie Fleet, the victim of a fake quote, saying she should be shot.

In the Commons, Kemi Badenoch, the Tory leader, referred to Labour now being known as the paedo defenders party.

This isn't just people on the right picking up the abusive language of bot farms and online pile-ons; the left goes far too easily to terms like fascist, Nazi, racist; the........

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