The vaccine rollout isn’t the only thing looking up for Matt Hancock. In the latest episode of Channel 4’s Googlebox, the Home Secretary’s latest Marr appearance went down a storm with viewers, as he cockily batted away questioning over the timing of India being added to the red list. He’s already 33/1 for next PM – might his odds improve in light of this showing?
Speaking to the Glaswegian book festival Aye Write, Andrew Marr frets:
“What I could say safely is that I think we are going to go through a period of politics – the next 10 or 20 years – much more turbulent and much more interesting and testing and challenging than anything we have seen in the last 10 years, which have been big enough.
“I think it will be very, very hard for people like me to carry on being completely neutral and completely sotto voce all the way through that.
“At some point, I want to get out and use my own voice again. How and when, I have no idea.”
This morning Andrew Marr confronted Shadow Foreign Secretary Lisa Nandy with the Mail on Sunday story that she praised a report “calling for woke ‘peace force’ to replace army” and claimed the UK is no longer a great power. The report in question, which Nandy said she was “inspired by”, suggested replacing Britain’s Armed Forces with a “gender-balanced human security corps”. Nandy denied welcoming the report, telling Marr “it’s complete and utter rubbish”. Unfortunately for Nandy, Guido has video proof showing otherwise…
At the Zoom launch of the report in December, Nandy is seen described the pamphlet as “Inspirational” and “based on the belief I also share”, saying “we need to build a foreign policy that is fit for the realities of this century and not the last”. “Complete and utter rubbish” may not be the line for much longer…
The BBC is finding it tricky to pin down Boris for an Andrew Neil interview, so when the PM agreed to go on Andrew Marr, the veteran broadcaster had to try out his best Paxman impression to make sure the interview rivalled Corbyn’s disastrous Neil grilling. Unfortunately, it just ended in a lot of shouting and the public none the wiser…
Guido’s now had time to crunch the numbers and worked out that of the 6,068 words spoken in the interview, only 3,465 were from Boris; meaning 43% of the 30-minute interview was taken up by Marr’s incomprehensible ranting – including one moment where he felt it necessary to remind viewers a staggering 8 times in just over a minute that the Tories have been in power for 10 years. (Factcheck – the Tories have been in office for 9 years). He even had the audacity to accuse Boris of wasting time chuntering…
