'Chilling' to hear John McDonnell quote Mao's Red Book

Author Diane Wei Liang is the daughter of Chinese intellectuals who spent time in Chinese labour camps under Chairman Mao's regime. She told the Today programme that it was chilling to hear John McDonnell quoting from the Little Red Book.
 
The shadow chancellor quoted from Chairman Mao's propaganda text in his response to George Osborne's Autumn Statement.

Mr McDonnell produced a copy of the Chinese Communist leader's Little Red Book after claiming public assets were being sold to the Chinese government.
He also attacked austerity and claimed a Labour victory over police cuts.
Mr Osborne said Labour was a "deadly threat to the economy".
The chancellor shelved planned cuts to tax credits and pledged to protect police budgets in his Autumn Statement and Spending Review, using a windfall from healthier-than-expected public finances.

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In the Spending Review documents it was also revealed funding for opposition political parties would be slashed - a move that could cost Labour more than £1m a year.
In his biggest Commons speech since becoming shadow chancellor, Mr McDonnell said the government had missed its deficit reduction targets and described the tax credits U-turn as a "fiasco".