Tag Archives: matt frei

Stephen Tall

As Channel 4 News goes on titillating ‘fishing trip’, Sarah Teather calls them out

By Stephen Tall | Fri 11th October 2013 - 11:45 am

I wasn’t too impressed by the timing of Sarah Teather’s announcement — on the eve of the party’s conference — that she wouldn’t be standing as a Lib Dem at the next election. But I was impressed by her performance on Channel 4 News last night.

Invited on to talk about immigration in her first television interview since that news broke, Matt Frei decided instead to search for cheap and easy headlines — does she think Nick Clegg’s a sell-out, is she in touch with Lord Rennard? etc — to her evident frustration.

She deals with it well, though as she’s commented today: “I agreed to do Channel 4 last night hoping for a thoughtful space to articulate some of my views on immigration and public discourse. Sadly Channel 4 were doing the Westminster thing and trying to make everything personal and titillating. But that is Westminster I guess. One of the challenges of trying to make arguments from inside the party political space! But I got to make some points anyway.”

Continue reading »
Posted in YouTube | Also tagged , and | 15 Comments
Advert

Recent Comments

  • Roland
    >"This isn’t a failure of the FA’s ambition" It is; it is also a failure of government over several decades. Firstly, let us not forget it was the FA a...
  • Alex Macfie
    "…a small number of technology companies hold enormous power over markets and the people who depend on their platforms." and government policy, not properly o...
  • Nonconformistradical
    @Mark https://www.libdems.org.uk/conference#c351200 is stating that registration will be open in November...
  • Mick Taylor
    @Adam. How little you know about the holocaust. My grandfather was one of the many Jewish soldiers who fought in the First World War and he won the Iron Cross....
  • Richard Spate
    During the run up to the dreaded Brexit vote Paddy Ashdown made an interesting predictive comment regarding us leaving the E.U. He said: 'If we leave the E.U...