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GB News’s Andrew Neil mocked for claiming ‘gammon’ is a racist term

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set to launch the new channel GB News in the coming weeks, blocked a man on Twitter after he called him a ‘gammon’.While Neil later claimed he was being sarcastic, it didn’t stop people rinsing him for claiming that being called a gammon was an ‘attack on his race’.‘Gammon’ refers to the flushed skin colour of a white person, and gained popularity as a term used to describe right-wing voters and those who voted Leave in the Brexit referendum.

After being called a ‘gammon’ on Twitter, Neil tweeted: ‘Racist. So blocked.’When one person replied: ‘Oh mate. Gammon is a state of mind’, the 71-year-old wrote: ‘It refers to colour.

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