British lawmakers demand Jeremy Clarkson apologise to Meghan Markle
British lawmakers have come out swinging against Jeremy Clarkson following his “violent misogynist” opinion piece about Meghan Markle.
The Top Gear host wrote a scathing piece in The Sun saying how much he "hates" the Duchess of Sussex, in the wake of the release of the Prince Harry and Meghan's Netflix documentary series.
The piece, which received 17,500 complaints, was retracted with 65 British lawmakers from various political parties condemning the article and demanding an apology to Ms Markle.
"We welcome The Sun's retraction of the article, we now demand action is taken against Mr Clarkson and an unreserved apology is issued to Ms Markle immediately," the letter read, which was led by Caroline Nokes, a Member of Parliament from the ruling Conservative party, and chair of Parliament's Women and Equalities Committee.
"We further demand definitive action is taken to ensure no article like this is ever published again.
"This sort of language has no place in our country, and it is unacceptable that it was allowed to be published in a mainstream newspaper.
"Ms Markle has faced multiple credible threats to her life, requiring the intervention of the Metropolitan Police.
“Hateful articles like the one written by Mr Clarkson do not exist in a vacuum and directly contribute to this unacceptable climate of hatred and violence."
It follows 17,500 complaints sent to the UK's press regulator the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) for the article published in Rupert Murdoch’s rag.
Clarkson was met with significant backlash and tweeted his “regret” over the column, which also saw his daughter Emily call him out.
"Oh dear. I've rather put my foot in it. In a column I wrote about Meghan, I made a clumsy reference to a scene in Game of Thrones and this has gone down badly with a great many people," he wrote.
"I'm horrified to have caused so much hurt and I shall be more careful in future."
The Sun also just mentioned they have removed the article but refused to make any further comment.
"In light of Jeremy Clarkson's tweet he has asked us to take last week's column down,” their statement read.
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