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"Carol Thatcher has said that she has no regrets over using the word &amp;quot;golliwog&amp;quot; to describe French-Congolese tennis star Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. The broadcaster was dropped from The One Show after she made the off-air comments during a green room conversation on the programme in February. When asked on the Andrew Marr Show on BBC One yesterday if she regretted the comment, Thatcher said: &amp;quot;No, because I used it in a context which wasn&amp;#039;t appreciated at the time. &amp;quot;My store of golliwog fridge magnets has actually now gone up because people have sent them to me.&amp;quot; She added: &amp;quot;The point about the mail I had was this thing about today&amp;#039;s obsession with political correctness. &amp;quot;I think that still remains a topic that has to be really addressed and some common sense injected into it.&amp;quot; Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock said: &amp;quot;I did not think that somebody like you Carol, who I only know from a distance, would consciously or even unconsciously use such a word now. &amp;quot;Not because of this overworked term &amp;#039;political correctness&amp;#039;, but merely out of courtesy, common humanity. I really was surprised by it.&amp;quot; Thatcher responded: &amp;quot;Sorry to shock you Lord Kinnock.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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