Starmer has defended embattled Angela Rayner on BBC 5 Live with Matt Chorley. He’s also given her a promotion…
Speaking about how proud he was of her despite the fact that people have been “briefing against her and talking her down” for a long time – including his team before their reconciliation – he described Rayner as “an incredible Prime Minister, an incredible person.” Vote of confidence there…
Starmer made sure to refer to her as Deputy PM a quite a few times after that. Asked if he would still be leading Labour into the election, Starmer said “definitely.” Some Labour honchos may have a thing or two to say about that…
Matt Chorley’s aggressive interview with Boris yesterday on 5 Live has raised a few eyebrows. The BBC’s newest hire (and its snippiest critic) got into a tired shouting match with Boris yesterday about whether the former PM is a “liar.” Chorley wouldn’t let Boris answer his own snarky questions…
Chorley admitted in a newsletter sent out later that viewers were not happy with his interview style:
“The reaction to the interview was divided almost equally – I was too shouty, he was too shouty, I wouldn’t let him speak, he wouldn’t answer the questions. But as always, everyone has a view.”
When an interviewer says the reaction to their interview was equally mixed – that means it was terrible. To top it off Chorley spent the rest of the day retweeting the odd random punter who said he did well. Is the BBC regretting its latest hire yet?
Matt Chorley is making waves in his new role presenting BBC 5 Live. His first interview with Prime Minister Starmer unearthed the explosive story that Keir’s daughter was getting a Siberian kitten, and today he was discussing the ins and outs of the benefits of Labour’s new Renters’ Rights Bill. Chorley brought on the director of Generation Rent, Ben Twomey to heap praise on the new policy. Though the top hack forgot to mention the rest of Twomey’s resume…
Twomey stood as the Labour candidate for Police and Crime Commissioner in Warwickshire in 2021. He’s also a long-standing member of the Labour Homelessness Campaign. No surprise that the activist was so supportive of Labour’s plan, then…
Matt Chorley has announced that after eight years at The Times, he’ll be joining BBC Radio 5Live – something of which he “could never have dreamt”. Guido had a look at some of his comments on his new employer over the years. They aren’t exactly ringing endorsements…
Chorley blasts “BBC bias” as well as bashing the fact it uses its “huge market influence to squeeze small indies out“. He also slams the BBC entering the podcast industry: “Is this another market that the taxpayer-funded BBC should try to dominate?”. Meanwhile he notes how the BBC misuses the phrase “has been told” when they are merely confirming someone else’s scoop. Something he’s not unknown to do himself…
If the rest of BBC personnel is anything to go by, Chorley will have no need to worry about keeping his opinions to himself…
Matt Chorley talking to Angela Rayner about his favourite cocktails:
“I had a brain haemorrhage once…”
Explains everything.
Starmer said to Robert Peston this afternoon:
“I’m fed up with the fact that families across the country see their bills go up and down on energy businesses bills go up and down on energy because of the actions of Putin or Trump across the world.”
