Owen Smith has apologised via his spokesman for saying he wanted to “smash” Theresa May “on her heels”:

“It was off script and, on reflection, it was an inappropriate choice of phrase and he apologises for using it.”

He hasn’t commented himself other than to stand by his comments…

He’s had a full spanking from Jess Phillips, who is one of his supporters:

I don’t like the terminolgy of smash very much but lets be honest it is a clumsy way of saying outperform, I like the heels bit less tbh

— Jess Phillips MP (@jessphillips) July 27, 2016

I will speak to Owen when I see him and I expect deeds lots of deeds on women, that is what matters.

— Jess Phillips MP (@jessphillips) July 27, 2016

Starting to look like Oily has a women problem…