Tuesday, 4 October 2016

Newsnight causes "outrage"



The closing discussion on last night's Newsnight - which discussed Mrs May, the Tories and Brexit - drew the following pair of tweets from Tim Montgomerie:


The Daily Express has an article about it with the headline:


The Remain-backing panellists were Jenni Russell, Danny Finkelstein, Heidi Allen MP and Andrew Rawnsley.

The main interview of the programme, however, was with David Gauke MP, another Remain-backer, and Evan Davis spent quite a bit of time discussing Brexit with him too, asking him (anti-Brexit) questions like:
These are brave face word you're putting on. Can you think of another act that a government has taken that would make us permanently 4% poorer - a single action other than going to a world war?
 That doesn't sound very impartial to me either.