Now asking her about Rosie Duffield not being able to speak freely and being heckled by other Labour MPs. Asking ET whether she has sympathy for Duffield.
ET: [Head roll, half sigh, patient voice] I think she does speak freely on it. I've spoken to her many times on it behind the scenes.
[Tory bloke next to her says under his breath, "Not according to...[can't work out what he says]"]
ET: We have had these conversations and what we need to do, of course, is speak to each other, listen.....
Presenter: What do you make of what [duffield] wrote about feeling isolated in the Labour Party?
ET [Head roll, eye roll] I don't think it's fair to say that she's isolated. As I say, I think many of us have....[Tory bloke is trying to interject about the atmosphere in the Commons last week, but ET is not letting him talk over her]. I have to say that the debate last week was not Parliament at its finest, and frankly I was in the chamber. I heard, I thought that I heard one person say, "No, Rosie, that's not right," , I was told that was two people, but to be honest, honestly, I was there, and the bottom half of the chamber, the Tories there were shouting at the [Nats??] so loudly that I really found it difficult to hear what was going on. And frankly after a while, I had enough of it and I simply left.
Tory bloke talking about LRM going to sit next to Cates to intimidate her, but theme music is playing over him to hail end of programme.