Lockdown buster and Kay Burley fanboy Inzamam Rashid has been suspended again by Sky News. Readers will remember Rashid was suspended for travelling to London to attend Burley’s covid rule breaking 60th birthday bash. He was also the subject of an Ofcom complaint after the way broadcasters intruded on the grief of Nicola Bulley’s family after her body was found. Now it looks like the correspondent has got himself into trouble again…
Guido hears the final straw for Sky News happened over Christmas, when he was rung by the news desk to say that they needed him on air one day. He rang back to say that he was too ill and couldn’t possibly work. Imagine Sky‘s surprise when they sent a cameraman to Piers Morgan’s Christmas bash that evening to doorstep Piers Morgan over the phone hacking scandal, to see the supposedly bed bound Rashid. Apparently he’s fighting the suspension, his defence being he had appalling diarrhoea in the morning, rendering him incapable of working, then it cleared up later in the day. Dignifying…