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A daughter of Chinese intellectuals, who spent time in Chinese labour camps under Chairman Mao's regime during her childhood, says it was chilling to hear John McDonnell quoting from the Little Red Book .

The shadow chancellor quoted from Chairman Mao's propaganda text in his response to George Osborne's Autumn Statement.

"It was chilling for me because it reminded me of the memories I had in childhood...of public denunciation meetings when, before sentences are passed on to someone who is either condemned to death or jail sentence, [there was] always someone quoting from Mao's Little Red Book a passage which then will be used to condemn these people," Diane Wei Liang told the programme.

"It's not funny for the millions of people who died during Mao's regime, nor for those who lived through those times," she said.