Sophie Raworth

[phil old leake]

What a good appointment she has been on a weekend

She ripped K Starmer a new one the other week and she had a right go at B Johnson about public money and what he will do if the police find he has breached COVID rules

[SydneyRover]

I wouldn't worry phil, It will all be sorted when they fill out their questionnaires.

[SydneyRover]

1/ Did you attend any gatherings at Downing st where alcohol was consumed.

yes

no

don't know

ask your lawyer

[drfchound]

What a good appointment she has been on a weekend

She ripped K Starmer a new one the other week and she had a right go at B Johnson about public money and what he will do if the police find he has breached COVID rules

Yes Phil, I agree with you.
I tend not to bother watching Sunday morning telly but I have seen her in action on her show once or twice and she doesn’t pull any punches does she.

[Metalmicky]

I thought it was quite tedious TBH.  Having quite categorically stated he wasn't going to answer questions on the on-going investigations, she carried on for a whole 10 minutes basically asking the same question over and over again.

I'm sure there are other matters that she could have quizzed him on rather than repeating the same question time and again......it's not like he was ever going to change his mind and answer it directly. 

[selby]

   Exactly that MM boring.

[Donnywolf]

I thought it was quite tedious TBH.  Having quite categorically stated he wasn't going to answer questions on the on-going investigations, she carried on for a whole 10 minutes basically asking the same question over and over again.

I'm sure there are other matters that she could have quizzed him on rather than repeating the same question time and again......it's not like he was ever going to change his mind and answer it directly. 

... yes, you would think they would learn Marr v May

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2017/jan/22/theresa-may-dodges-question-trident-misfire-four-times-video

[BillyStubbsTears]

We used to have superbly incisive political interviewers who actually engaged politicians in discussion. Two intelligent grown ups talking about important issues. Brain Walden was one excellent example. Brian Redhead on the radio.

Following that, we had a generation of very skillful political interviewers, who, unfortunately, we more interested in tripping politicians up than actually getting them to discuss substantive issues. Paxman, Neill, Humphrys etc. Narcissists making themselves the centre of attention, and having as their main aim, not educating the public, but amusing them by seeing politicians getting kebabbed.

So we've ended up with a generation of politicians whose primary skill is avoiding getting tripped up by the interviewers. Or giving as good as they get. Can you imagine Johnson ever being PM in a previous era, where content actually mattered?

And now we ended up with vacuous non-entities like Raworth and Bruce as the interviewers. Not a sniff of understanding about the important issues in politics between them. What a f**king decline.

[wilts rover]

What a good appointment she has been on a weekend

She ripped K Starmer a new one the other week and she had a right go at B Johnson about public money and what he will do if the police find he has breached COVID rules

Its telling that all the other leaders had to do a live interview, so were forced to think on their feet, whilst the bloke who ran into a fridge to escape answering questions would only do it pre-recorded so he could censor anything he didn't like. There must have been some really right rubbish bits we didn't see if they thought that shifty, evasive performance was worthy of someone running the country.

But yes, from the pieces I have seen Sophie Raworth has been excellent to date. Very well briefed and asking pertinent questions.

[ravenrover]

Robin Day wouldn't have let him get away with it
Here today, gone tomorrow

[Bentley Bullet]

Robin Day wouldn't have let him get away with it
Here today, gone tomorrow

Who Johnson or Starmer?

[ravenrover]

Any of them

[BillyStubbsTears]

Brian Walden was a magnificent political interviewer because he understood the subjects. He didn't rely on being given briefing notes. He could discuss the principles of politics and economics with senior politicians.

This interview with the founder of what became UKIP is brilliant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RowLyW5X52A

The interviewer is respectful, but hard. Intelligent and responding to the interviewee's words. he gives the interviewee space, but points out the errors of his argument.

The whole intention is to get arguments freely and properly aired, to educate the watcher.

There is literally NOTHING like that today. Political interviews are entirely based on the aim of trying to trip up politicians and demonstrate them to be incompetent or hypocritical. There is no wonder that the population thinks all politicians are incompetent and hypocritical.