the preoccupations. and you learn from the subjects they raise what s really concerning them. and that s quite valuable. the actual information you get from them isn t. what does he ring to complain about? famously, we did a story saying he was going to get rid of his dog. which i think might have been planted by dominic cummings who wanted to get rid of the dog. this greatly upset the prime minister and carrie and he rang up to complain about that story of all things. anything more serious that he complains about? sometimes coverage, really, it s more nonspecific. and when the prime minister calls, do you feel under pressure, it s the prime minister, does it impact what you do? no. and do you speak to him more than you spoke to other prime ministers, teresa may for example? no, about the same. under your watch sunday times broke the story with cash for honours story with allegations of donors to political parties being rewarded. there ve been many scoops sense. why didn t you break pa
took them this long, really. it s interesting because this includes quite a lot of tories as long two as well as general voting population. he has occupied that being quite high in the popularity stakes for really long time, even when there was evidence of extraordinarily bad government decision lack of concentration, lack of a strategy, because he is a kind of lovable road, i don t know what it is, he personally maintained quite high ratings. and according to the i, the newspaper i write for is that vaccine bounces over. i think it might be more than that. maybe the cummings revelation, though they were quiet, one didn t like the man delivering them and didn t trust him. maybe there were some bits in
was controversial, probably wasn t the point was controversial, probably wasn t the point that people thought it might the point that people thought it might have been at what we could all say virus might have been at what we could all say virus is might have been at what we could all say virus is gone, cases were on the rise across say virus is gone, cases were on the rise across the country. all of a sudden rise across the country. all of a sudden were at a point now where we are talking sudden were at a point now where we are talking about again are the government making very right decisions government making very right decisions for the right moment? i think decisions for the right moment? i think not decisions for the right moment? i think not only have we seen the vaccine, think not only have we seen the vaccine, were not in the moment of the vaccine vaccine, were not in the moment of the vaccine roll out going so well but we the vaccine roll out going so w