- Politician answers a question: an exception that proves the rule
- A Labour leader with no interest in spin!
- A Tory leader's three evasive answers to the same question
- The day Mrs Thatcher apologised (twice) for what she'd said in an interview
- A prime minister who openly refused to answer Robin Day's questions
- 'Here today, gone tomorrow' politician walks out of interview with Robin Day
- The day Mandelson walked out of an interview rather than answer a question about Gordon Brown
- Mandelson gives two straight answers to tow of Paxman's questions
- Two more straight answers from Mandelson - about failed coups and the PM's rages
- Rare video clip of a politician giving 5 straight answers to 5 consecutive questions
Another startling interview: "I haven't seen or heard what the PM said, but I agree with it"
My thanks today to Jim Kelleher of IpsosMORI for alerting me to an essential gem for my collection of memorable interviews with politicians (via Twitter @UncleBooBoo).
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2 comments:
Max:
There’s nothing like mindless party loyalty. In the U.S. we have an old term for one version. A yellow dog Democrat is someone who would feel obligated to vote for any candidate his party picked - including a yellow dog. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_dog_democrat
Is there an equivalent English or Scottish slang term?
The Republican party equivalent is someone who would vote against any Democrat, as happened to Idaho’s Senator Frank Church who lost to a Republican in an election campaign driven by outside money from the Anybody But Church Committee:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Church
Richard
It's too embarrassing isn't it. Australia's political satirists Clarke and Dawe [http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/clarkedawe.htm] have been at it for years. But they're satirists!
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