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I suggested to @BorisJohnson that he had “shot himself in the foot” in his response to the critique of Dorothy Byrne, head of news and current affairs at Channel 4, that he and @jeremycorbyn don’t allow themselves to be held to account on television enough - because today he...
refused to be interviewed by Ch4 News (@Channel4News). “Not in the least” he told me. But if he heard Byrne’s recent MacTaggart speech and a linked interview as undermining Ch4’s impartiality, surely he should complain to the regulator...
Ofcom. Ofcom would be the appropriate adjudicator. And at a time of what Johnson calls a national emergency, he should not shy away from scrutiny by Ch4 or any serious news organisation. The attitude of Johnson’s predecessor, May, and her...
press secretary - “what’s in it for us?” - is surely inappropriate when as a nation we face our most momentous peacetime decision for generations, how, when and whether we leave the EU.
