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’.
Britain’s best politics newsletters
You get two free articles each week when you sign up to The Spectator’s emails.
Already a subscriber? Log in
Comments
Join the debate, free for a month
Be part of the conversation with other Spectator readers by getting your first month free.
UNLOCK ACCESS Try a month freeAlready a subscriber? Log in