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and i think it s a good thing and it s been a good thing for democracy, and it ll be interesting to see how ruth gets on on times radio. good luck to them. 0k, phil, we ll come back to you in a moment. but let s start with the dramatic scenes that i expect will be dominating tomorrow s front pages. borisjohnson appeared at prime minister s questions today after a pretty dramatic morning, which included an mp defecting from the conservatives to labour. what did you make of it all, laura hughes, political correspondent at the ft? well, it was. not to sound like a football commentator, but it was an event of two halves. at the beginning, you started with this enormous bombshell of a tory mp defecting to the labour partyjust minutes before the prime minister faced parliament. and that felt like a real, real sort of moment which actually served in the prime minister s favour, because i think it scooped a few tory mps who were feeling a bit nervous now. but then, at the very end of prime min
but it s great also to be able to have real people unmediated, talking directly and getting the views of politicians. and i think it s a good thing and it s been a good thing for democracy, and it ll be interesting to see how ruth gets on on times radio. good luck to them. 0k, phil, we ll come back to you in a moment. but let s start with the dramatic scenes that i expect will be dominating tomorrow s front pages. borisjohnson appeared at prime minister s questions today after a pretty dramatic morning, which included an mp defecting from the conservatives to labour. what did you make of it all? well, it was, not to sound like a football commentator, but it was an event of two halves at the beginning. you started with this enormous bombshell of a tory mp, the labour partyjust minutes before the prime minister faced parliament. and that felt like a real, real sort of moment which actually served in the prime minister s favour because i think it scooped a few tory mps
communications, and he s now back on fleet street as deputy editor in chief of the sun. helen lewis, writer at the atlantic, first up, can you just clarify how normal is it for a journalist to move between journalism and politics like that? well, it s enormously common in one direction moving from journalism into politics if you think about the fact that, you know, david cameron s spokesman was craig oliver. you know, this is not. you know, labour had seumas milne from the guardian. you know, this is not an unusual thing at all. what s slightly more unusual in this case is moving back again so quickly. and that, i think, is the thing that makes it very hard because people are inevitably asking, hang on a minute, is the sun reporting this with one hand tied behind its back because its own hierarchy are involved in the story? and that can be very difficult as a kind of conflict of interest thing to square. but also the way through this, you know, borisjohnson is a formerjournalis
at distraction, if you like. i mean, either borisjohnson is being badly advised or he s being very well advised and he s ignoring the advice. but, whichever it is, he s ending up trying to, as i say, sort of tick box populist policies to allow some of his potential critics on the backbenches to feel that their hobbyhorse issue is being advanced at the same time as the british public and the activists the tory activists can see that he looks a broken man, and those optics, i think, have a much more profound impact than any policy that he might try to put forward in a sort of kneejerk reaction. and helen lewis from the atlantic. i mean, in the sunday papers, various newspapers the telegraph and sunday times they were reporting it as a blizzard of crowd pleasing policies. you know, laura s touched on it but, you know, one of them was the announcement about the bbc licence fee. within a few hours, lo and behold, the culture secretary, nadine dorries, was tweeting