In a ground-breaking programme within a programme, the BBC's Media Editor Amol Rajan and the BBC's former Political Editor Nick Robinson replaced the 0745 paper review on Radio 4's Today, with a mannered discussion of Boris Johnson's 2018 hunt for employment for his then paramour Carrie Symonds, and how it has been in and out of the newspapers.
This Olympian debate managed both to patronise and then minimise the issue. Uncle Nick's analysis, audibly admired by 'nephew' Amol, was that the story was about what Boris was 'thinking', not what he did. Wrong again, Nick. The man who is our Prime Minister raised the issue of employing his mistress in a senior Government role, and was told don't be daft. If he'd just thought it, nobody would have heard him.
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