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And delighted to hear him excoriated on R4 this morning
“So she was impartial before. But now she’s not?”
And then the interviewer terminates the interview as the slippery little rodent repeated not answering the question
Do have a listen, it was properly excellent journalism
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So she was impartial before. But now she’s not?
I don't really understand why he found that question so hard to answer, it's not even that much of a "gotcha". New information came to light that changes your interpretation of someone's actions.
It wouldn't be unreasonable to impose some sort of "cooling-off period" when someone is crossing over from the civil service to a political party.
NickCJ
Tories frothing at the mouth in a hypocritical shout of questioning ethics.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64834134
Conservative MP Alexander Stafford, a former ministerial aide to Mr Johnson, said the appointment "doesn't pass the sniff test".
"It really undermines the work that she's done, undermines the civil service and really puts in question Sir Keir's complete judgement," he added.
Former minister Jacob Rees-Mogg, a cabinet minister under Mr Johnson, has said Ms Gray's Partygate conclusions now looked "like a left-wing stitch up".