BOLTON MP Yasmin Qureshi was warned about her language as she repeated a vile racist slur she has been targeted with on national radio this morning.

The Bolton South East MP echoed an occasion she had been called an expletive-ridden racist name in the street, during a debate with a caller on Radio 5 Live as to whether US presidential hopeful Donald Trump should be banned from the UK for offensive comments he has made about muslims.

Ms Qureshi was providing an impassioned argument that Mr Trump should be barred after advocating a ban on all muslims entering the United States, while the caller was pushing the case for freedom of speech, saying a ban would achieve nothing.

Responding, Ms Qureshi said: “He needs to know that what he is saying is unacceptable — this is not a discussion of ideas, what we are addressing is offensiveness.”

She then went on to compare it with the racist abuse she said she has suffered in the street, but was interrupted by host Rachel Burden as she repeated the vile phrase on the airwaves.

Ms Burden said: “Clearly we have to be careful at this time of them morning with the kind of language we are using.”

Ms Qureshi immediately apologised, stating: “I’m sorry, I am just saying that is what I have been called — my apologies.

“Freedom of speech is great but it has to be limited to the right circumstances.”

Ms Burden added: “It is ok, these things happen — and that is not to underplay how vile and offensive that language is.”

After the show, Ms Qureshi told The Bolton News: "I did apologise, but it is important to stress that this was a discussion about freedom of speech and I was repeating something that had been said to me and saying that that isn't free speech.

"It was in the context of that impassioned discussion and if people think that is wrong I understand that, but how can you demonstrate that kind of abuse without an example?"

Speaking about the abuse she has suffered, Ms Qureshi said some of it has occurred in Bolton.

She said: "It is not a common occurence, but it has happened occasionally out on the street, but it is much worse on the internet where I regularly am targeted with horrible abuse."