Kay Burley and Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy have been arguing on Sky News this morning over the ridiculousness of the government lobbying the police to give Taylor Swift a presidential-style motorcade to a gig. Tickets for which were being handed out by her record label to the PM and his ministers…
Nandy eventually caved under pressure and launched on an offensive:
“You know, we’re now in a situation where I mean you know most of Sky News was at these events in these same boxes as well to be completely fair.”
Burley hit back: “Who was there? I paid for my tickets. Don’t do that, no.” Nandy claimed Keir Starmer had paid for his too. A few weeks late, mind…
Nandy couldn’t name any other Sky personnel who went along for free when asked and ended with: “People can judge for themselves.“ A cruel summer for cronies…
Keir Starmer’s never-ending list of freebies is the gift that keeps on giving for opposition parties. Since becoming Labour leader in 2019, Starmer has managed to rack up an eye-watering £107,000 in gifts—the highest of any MP and more than double second-place Lucy Powell’s measly £40,000. Cue Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds, sent out this morning to do some pre-conference damage control. He tried…
Speaking to a frosty Kay Burley on Sky News, Reynolds defended Starmer’s lavish perks, arguing that his boss is in a “high-pressure job” and deserves some downtime—like, say, attending Taylor Swift concerts, which Reynolds bizarrely described as “major cultural sporting events.” When Burley pressed him on Sue Gray’s hefty salary and Starmer’s growing list of gifts, all while pensioners are losing their winter fuel allowance, Reynolds reached for the classic Labour excuse: the “black hole in the public finances”. If in doubt, blame the deficit…
Meanwhile, Starmer claims that he had to accept posh box seats at football matches because security wouldn’t let him sit in the regular stands. Funny how that wasn’t an issue for Rishi…
Labour Party Chairman Ellie Reeves was questioned by Kay Burley on Waheed Alli’s Downing Street pass. Reeves’ scattered defence lines contradicted themselves:
Reeves refused to say who authorised the pass. Meanwhile Shadow DSIT Secretary Andrew Griffith is calling for an investigation by Laurie Magnus, No 10’s Independent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests, into the cronyism scandal. Maybe the Propriety Group’s Jess Sargeant should look into it?
Lord Cameron was rolled out for the morning round today. When asked by Kay Burley what he would do if the Conservatives lost the election he replied:
“If my mother had wheels she would have been a bicycle, I don’t answer questions beginning with ‘if’.”
It’s almost the verbatim Gino D’Acampo joke from May 2010. Has Cameron been reminiscing with the aid of daytime TV from the exact month and year of the first election he won? Simpler times…
James Cleverly was left squirming on Sky News this morning. Kay Burley reeled off a list of cabinet ministers that would lose their seat if the bombshell MRP materialised at the General Election. When it got to the Common Sense minister Esther McVey, Cleverly couldn’t conceal a little chuckle. Theses are the top Tories that are at risk:
Cleverly’s face says it all. Too stunned to speak…
UPDATE: A source close to Cleverly says he wasn’t chuckling at McVey, just mildly amused at Kay’s interviewing tactic.
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…
