After uttering the dreaded ‘golliwog’ word in front of politically-correct BBC colleagues, she has quite rightly been sacked from her job as ‘roving reporter’ (should that be ‘barking’? – ed.) on The One Show.

We suggest it was more to do with the fact that she’s lousy at the job and only got the role BECAUSE she was well-connected as the offspring of equally dotty parents.

A spokeswoman for Carol Thatcher accused the BBC of “being motivated by animosity towards her mother, former prime minister Lady Thatcher”.   Ha!  If that were the case, she wouldn’t have got the job in the first place.

Thatcher was removed from her post after she refused to issue an unconditional apology for her remark, in conversation about a tennis tournament.  A BBC spokesman said: “The notion that this matter is in any way linked to her family is just silly.”

Miss Thatcher is now demanding an apology from the corporation over her treatment.           Good luck with that, then, Carol….