Sky News won the battle of the producers to book ministers for their programmes in April. The usually minister-heavy Today Programme drops out of the top three for the first time, while Newsnight rises up the rankings. Marr features a minister a week. The whole of ITV (The Agenda, Good Morning Britain, and ITV News) managed to get just three ministers in the entire month. Overall there were 44 ministerial broadcast appearances in April, expect that to ramp up when the referendum campaign gets going…

There was an average of one ministerial broadcast appearance a day in March, as the government swerves accountability over the airwaves. By some distance ministers were more willing to appear on the Today programme than any other show or channel. Downing Street evidently does not fancy sending ministers out to bat when Andrew Neil or Andrew Marr are bowling. Softball interviews on Newsnight are for some reason much more popular…