Amol Rajan has been a presenter on the Today programme since 2021 and today was discussing Rachel Reeves' budget, which was announced yesterday

A BBC presenter has been forced to issued an apology after an on=air comment angered viewers.

Journalist Amol Rajan apologised to listeners on his Radio 4 show this morning after he appeared to suggest that people who claim benefits are "scroungers".

Amol told his listeners that he wanted to clarify what he meant by his comment that he made during an interview with former Labour minister Lord David Blunkett.

They were discussing yesterday's budget when Amol said: "According to the child poverty action group there are over 4 million kids in this country in poverty, more than 70 percent of those are actually in families where people work. It's

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