I think if we read a story about another country where a national political leader threatened to pull a broadcaster’s licence because he didn’t like their coverage, we know what our reaction would be. buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/bo…
You can make criticism of whether or not C4 is right to empty chair the PM, replace with an ice statue, whatever. But the response from political leadership shouldn’t be that.
Suspect, like many of the other constitutional threats this Number 10 has made, it’ll be hollow but sometimes the threat is the damaging thing.
But remember, every moment we spend talking about the Andrew Neil interview (which will probably happen) or other media related stories is a moment we don’t spend talking about election issues, which is probably what Number 10 would like best.
