A councillor has hit out at "keyboard warriors" after one of his colleagues faced questions from Guardian journalist Owen Jones at the Conservative Party Conference.
Coun Paul Ezhilchelvan accused Mr Jones of 'ambushing' fellow councillor Jeff Watson last weekend and branded the journalist "ideological."
The columnist and left-wing activist had asked Coun Watson, who is Northumberland County Council's cabinet member for healthy lives about the risk of malnutrition in the UK, to which Coun Watson had said he did not see "people dying on the streets of malnutrition." His comments led to calls for his resignation from Wansbeck MP Ian Lavery.
