The Daily Mail was among papers to report on mind-boggling comments made by Hugh Jackson during a North Tyneside Council finance meeting. The story broke in a local paper. "We were discussing some of the expensive bits of the budget and one of those is children looked after out of the borough," Jackson explained to Newcastle paper the Evening Chronicle. "I said have we looked at other policies and said something along the lines of 'have we thought about euthanasia?'."
He apologised for the remark but added it was "out of order" to say he should resign. "I work on a project that visits care homes to make sure they are working properly so it's something I care about," he adds, which makes his 'joke' seem worse.
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