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Dermot Murnaghan vs Anna Soubry: ‘are you sure you’re in government?’

With the Sunday papers filled with stories suggesting David Cameron’s party is in turmoil over the EU, Sky’s Dermot Murnaghan decided to raise the issue with Anna Soubry during an appearance on his show. Alas he got more than he bargained for when the Minister for Small Business — who is known not to mince her words — proceeded to take Murnaghan to task over his ‘seriously boring’ line of questioning:

DM: Are you saying ‘oh dear it’s all turning a bit nasty’?

AS: No, I’m saying: ‘oh dear this is so boring for ordinary viewers who are not interested in this media bubble, mainly centred in Westminster’. Out here in the real world people want to know the issues, they want to know why they’re going to be safer stronger and better off in Europer, and equally what it will look like if we were to leave the EU. That’s what people want to know about, not this media bubble, it’s dreadful Dermot.

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