. —— colum eastwood.issued an apology and said she is "mortified" at her "clumsy language", after she described the shadow home secretary, dianne abbott, as ‘coloured' in an interview on bbc radio two. whether it is worse if you are a woman, that is the key question. whether it is worse if you are a woman, that is the key questionfl definitely is worse if you are a woman, and worst of all if you are a coloured woman, i know that diane abbott gets a huge amount of abuse, andl abbott gets a huge amount of abuse, and i think that is something we need to continue to call out. diane abbott responded to her comments on twitter. she said "the term ‘coloured' is an outdated, offensive and revealing choice of words." shortly afterwards, amber rudd issued an apology, also via twitter. she said: our political correspondent ben wright is following the story for us. what kind of reaction has there been? not a great deal, but, clearly, amber rudd clattered into a really difficult and controversial row here about languag