After No 10’s useful idiot had failed to defend Nadhim Zahawi’s reputation, Richard Sharp was grilled in a BBC safe house
Chris Philp. One of those people who earn their money by going out of their way to make sure they know nothing.Chris Philp. One of those people who earn their money by going out of their way to make sure they know nothing.Last modified on Tue 24 Jan 2023 21.12 GMThen the chips are down. When all else seems lost. At least Rishi Sunak will always have a Chris Philp. When they realised Nadhim Zahawi was not going to be fired and thatwas not going to resign, most ministers ran for the hills.
By Philp’s standards, Tuesday was a total success. One disaster after another. His kind of day. It turned out that saying he knew nothing about Zahawi’s tax affairs to everyone who asked didn’t close down the conversation. Rather it opened it up.
Having watched Philp fail to defend Zahawi’s reputation, Sharp turned to the airwaves to salvage what remained of his. And where else would the chairman of thego for this interview but the BBC itself. Not just any part of the BBC, but the BBC’s very own safe house. Sharp was filmed in near total darkness, as if he was part of a witness protection plan.
So many scandals, so little time … It’s easy to forget Suella Braverman in all this. The home secretary has already been sacked once for breaches of the ministerial code. Most prime ministers would have already sacked her again. This time for just being useless at her job. Her immigration policy doesn’t work. The Met is riddled with rapists. And now scores of children have gone missing from government funded hotels for asylum seekers. Just vanished.
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