TalkTV presenter Alex Phillips lost it live on-air as she took aim at the Labour home secretary.

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Alex Phillips banged her head against the desk (Image: TalkTV)

TalkTV anchor Alex Phillips couldn’t hold in her hysterical laughter as she lost it with Labour home secretary Shabana Mahmood, branding her an “absolute moron”. Mahmood recently lashed out at Green Party leader Zack Polanski for their views on illegal migrants – something Phillips branded hypocritical after an article Mahmood wrote in 2015 resurfaced.

In the segment, Phillips began: “Shabana Mahmood was criticising Zack Polanski, saying ‘They shouldn’t be there on the beaches of France trying to help people who are trying to come into the country illegally!’ Right, let’s look at this then, shall we? October 15th 2015, The New Statesman. Author – Shabana Mahmood. ‘What am I doing here?’ the article begins. Well, good question Shabana!”

She continued to quote from the article, adding: “‘I asked myself that question a lot during the three days that I spent on the Greek island of Lesbos last week, working with a group of Birmingham-based volunteers to provide aid and assistance to refugees as they land on the shores of Europe.

“I asked myself that question as I helped get people of dangerously overfull dinghies, as I tried to block out the screams of a small child terrified by the dangerous boat journey he had just survived. As I found myself knee-deep in wet clothes discarded by refugees, trying to find anything that could be salvaged…’”

Partway through the recitation, Phillips collapsed into laughter, holding her papers in front of her face as she slammed her head on the desk.

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Mahmood was branded an ‘absolute moron’ (Image: Getty)

Alex fumed: “Shabana, mate, if I were you I’d remember that you wrote this article before saying that in your speech.

Fans went wild over the segment, with one tweeting in response: “The contrast Alex is drawing is the right one.

“Mahmood talks about values while presiding over policies that make crossing the Channel more attractive, not less. Sympathy for individual cases is not a migration policy. Enforcement is.”