You've got to hand it to Andrew Neil...
Yes, he may be best buddies with his long-time colleague on BBC One's This Week, Diane Abbott, but that didn't stop him from giving her a thorough and forensic debunking on today's Sunday Politics.
He then gave Conservative Liam Fox and UKIP's Steven Woolfe a very thorough grilling.
If you didn't know his past, would you be able to tell his politics from his questioning?
And yet because of that past he's the trump card played by defenders of the BBC who have - for years - cried "What about Andrew Neil?" when confronted with evidence of left-wing bias at the BBC.
It's a funny old world, isn't it?
Update: (Sue)
Diane Abbott; making it up as she goes along.
Update: (Sue)
Diane Abbott; making it up as she goes along.
“Jeremy got the most applause” "250,000 people who came out in London think the cuts are unfair." "You can sneer, Andrew"
“Earnings from the BBC alone” H/T fi_karen (btl comment)
I don’ wanna be a basic bitch, but what I do know, Andrew, is that straightened hair and geeky glasses definitely don’t do much for our Diane, do they, Andrew?
