Nadhim Zahawi said he will set out a new policy in response to the ‘appalling’ incident.
Mr Zahawi told the BBC’s Sunday Morning show: “It’s appalling, what happened. I’m reviewing what our guidelines, our policies, are on this. No child should have been exposed to that sort of trauma.
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