EAST Lancashire fashion designer Wayne Hemingway lost his temper during a live interview with the BBC.

The founder of Red or Dead and staunch Labour supporter was forced to defend his company's past business practice of hiring interns on 20-hours-a-week expenses-only contracts.

The 54-year-old, raised in Blackburn, said: "That was in 2013 and we have changed, and that was for an internship.

"It's not now, it's in the past.

"We realised that was wrong and we changed two years ago."

Mr Hemingway joined more than 100 business people who signed a letter backing Labour as a party that 'put working people first'.

He said: "Now we are paying travel, we are paying food, we are paying various things, and in the future we may even pay all our interns."

Labour leader Ed Miliband has pledged to eradicate zero-hours contracts if his party wins power in May.