'What a load of baloney!' Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid press Angela Rayner on how Labour will 'deal with' student debt

Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid skewered the shadow education secretary Angela Rayner secretary over Jeremy Corbyn's statement in the election that Labour would "deal with" tuition debt.

Many, some MPs, took this to mean that Labour would write off existing student debt. However, the party is now saying it made no such promise.

Susanna Reid suggested it was disingenuous to say the party would "deal with" tuition debt in NME, a magazine aimed at students.

Piers Morgan also told Angela Rayner that his son voted for Jeremy Corbyn based on his statements on student debt and "accused [him] of missing the Corbyn wave".

As Ms Rayner answered, Mr Morgan shouted "What a load of baloney!" when she claimed Labour never said it would wipe historic debt because it wasn't in the manifesto.

Mr Morgan said: " "Just to clarify, you can't even give me say a million pounds that you might want to try to wipe out?"

She replied: "I'm not just going to start trying to throw figures around like wedding confetti, that's not the way I do things.

"I costed the manifesto quite clearly and people can see that".

The Good Morning Britain presenter then asked if they were even going to wipe "one pence" of student debt.

She said "You're making yourself look silly".

He replied: "I'm not the one that's making myself look silly Angela. 

"Anyone can say they're going to deal with something but when your'e actually pressed about how you're going to deal with something but when you're pressed on how you're going to deal with it, and how much hope to pay off and that's the problem with this".

Labour was previously accused of duping young people over Mr Corbyn's statements on tuition debt.

In June, just days before polling day, Mr Corbyn said that “first of all, we want to get rid of student fees altogether,” adding that he was exploring ways to “reduce, ameliorate...or some other means of reducing” the “massive debts” owed by graduates.

He also told NME that he would "deal with" student debt.

In the House of Commons earlier this month, Labour appeared to backtrack.

Angela Rayner said: “I don't know how many times I have to explain this to members opposite before they finally understand.

"A cynic might say that they're wilfully misrepresenting my party's policies. We have never said that we would simply write off all existing debt.

“I've said once, and I will say it again, we have no plans to write off existing student debt and we never promised to do so.”