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Jeremy Clarkson was last night at the centre of a new storm – after saying that babies should be put in the luggage hold on flights.

The Top Gear presenter had just flown to Scotland when he tweeted: ‘When will British Airways realise that babies belong in the hold?’

But Justine Roberts, of the website Mumsnet, hit back: ‘There are plenty of Mumsnet users hoping British Airways will realise Jeremy Clarkson belongs in the hold'

Clarkson, 53, has a long history of talking himself into trouble. He has joked about the deaths of 23 Chinese cockle-pickers in Morecambe, suggested striking public sector workers should be shot, mocked Korean automobile workers for eating dogs and branded BMW ‘Nazis’

Yesterday, in response to The Mail on Sunday’s enquiries about babies flying he tweeted: ‘Mine didn’t fly till they were old enough to behave.’

BA said: ‘We welcome families, including infants, in all cabins.’

The BBC would not comment

Clarkson has previously been criticised for his outspoken opinions.

Most recently, he sparked outrage when he cracked a joke about the Stuart Hall scandal.

He wrote on Twitter: 'Can I just say that I've worked at the BBC for 24 years and in all that time no-one has ever tried to put his finger in my bottom.'

Ex-BBC football commentator Stuart Hall admitted 12 indecent assaults on girls aged nine to 17 over 18 years last week and was labelled an 'opportunistic predator.'


He also described former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who is blind in one eye, as a 'one-eyed Scottish idiot' while on tour in Australia in 2009.

In 2010 an audience member told him she was American during an episode of Top Gear, to which he replied: 'You can't be, you're nowhere near fat enough'

He said the Perodua Kelisa was probably built in the jungle by people who wear leaves for shoes in a 2007 broadcast, enraging the Malaysian manufacturers.

While driving a truck in 2008 he made a joke about lorry drivers murdering prostitutes, saying: 'You've got to change gear, change gear, change gear, check mirror... murder a prostitute. Change gear, change gear, murder. That's a lot of effort in a day.'


After Top gear co-host Richard Hammond described Mexicans as being 'feckless' and 'lazy' in 2011, Clarkson joked that Mexico wouldn't complain as the country's UK ambassador would asleep in front of the TV. He wasn't, and a complaint was issued


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