The morning broadcast round is often dreaded by politicians sent out to bat for the government. Today it was the unlucky turn of Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer, who ended up being savaged by Kay Burley on Sky News while defending Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s call to reform the UN refugee convention.
Early on, Frazer had declared ‘that’s not my job, I’m not the education secretary’ when challenged by Burley about the government not doing enough to get kids back into schools. The presenter then scathingly told Frazer ‘I’m sure you’re going to tell me you’re not the Home Secretary either’, before asking her ‘whether ‘the government [will] commit to staying within the UN refugee convention’.
Frazer twice refused to answer the question, and instead rambled on about ‘what the Home Secretary was saying’, before stating that ‘uncontrolled illegal immigration is a global problem that needs global solutions’. She then claimed she had misunderstood Burley’s question before proceeding to, er, still not answer the question.
The interview went from bad to worse when Burley asked Frazer whether HS2 would be built all the way to Manchester. The Culture Secretary replied, ‘Well that is a decision, as you know, for the Chancellor, and not for me as Culture Secretary.’ Wrapping up the interview, Burley shot back, ‘I seem to know a lot more this morning than you, Minister! You keep telling me how much I know.’
Mr Steerpike suspects it may be a while before the Culture Secretary fancies gracing our screens again…
Watch it here:
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