Craig Emerson quits Sky News over Blair Cottrell interview

Former Labor minister says decision to put the far-right extremist on Sky was ‘another step to normalising racism’

The former Labor minister Craig Emerson has quit as a commentator for Sky News after it broadcast an interview with the far-right extremist Blair Cottrell.

“My father fought Nazis in WWII and was interred in a German POW camp,” he wrote on Twitter. The decision to put Cottrell on Sky News was “another step in a journey to normalising racism & bigotry in our country”, Emerson said.

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