Good Morning Britain has been flooded with over 800 Ofcom complaints over Richard Madeley's remarks on Sir Keir Starmer.
The 65-year-old anchor faced intense backlash over his comments after the Labour leader received death threats following Boris Johnson's false claim that Mr Starmer failed to prosecute paedophile Jimmy Savile.
Richard was discussing the incident with commentator Andrew Pierce on the ITV news programme broadcast on Tuesday, February 15.
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The consultant editor of the Daily Mail said: " Politicians get that all the time."
Richard responded: "Well I was going to say, actually, is that that big of a deal?’"
The Good Morning Britain presenter was hit with complaints from fans on social media who accused him of downplaying the severity of the death threats.
This prompted Richard to apologise for the comments when he was fronting the programme the next day.
He said: "It was a really busy show yesterday, we had so much to do. I want to say one thing very quickly at the top here.
"I tried to pose a question on one of our early discussions on the programme about how prolific online death threats are. I didn’t actually quite press it properly, I didn’t go into it enough.
"I just want to reiterate the obvious statement that death threats clearly are never acceptable."
ITV were contacted for comment.
Good Morning Britain airs weekdays at 6am on ITV and ITV Hub
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