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GMB's Richard Madeley sparks fan fury as ITV viewers fume over Ukrainian MP question
Richard Madeley has managed to rub up Good Morning Britain viewers the wrong way.The 65-year-old presenter was back on our screens on Monday morning (March 7) alongside co-host Susanna Reid.They welcomed Ukrainian MP Lesia Vasylenko onto the ITV breakfast show to discuss the ongoing crisis.She told the presenters that she was prepared to risk for life for her country during the interview.Lesia explained that she fled Ukraine with her three children but later returned to fight back against the Russian army.Former This Morning host Richard began the interview by asking Vasylenko whether she could shoot someone if she needed.He asked: "Can I ask you a very difficult, personal question?"You are a cultured, civilised human being, you’re a democratically elected MP, you're a mother of three as we said, and you now have an AK47 propped up in the corner and you’re said you’re prepared to use it."Can I just ask you about that last bit? Are you really capable as the person as I’ve just described, the person looking down a barrel of a rifle and shooting somebody dead?"The MP replied: "The AK47 sits in the other room" as she held up a gun to the screen."I have another gun which I carry with me all the time, I sleep with it, I go to the bathroom with it. Do I have a choice? No, I do not have a choice.”"When I have reports every single day coming in from Russian soldiers roaming through our villages and the streets of all kinds of towns, breaking into people’s houses and just shooting at people because they are moving targets, then no, I do not have a choice.""As I said I am pro-life.