Oh dear. Sarah Montague is not having a good day. The Today presenter managed to make not one, not two, but three gaffes while hosting today’s Radio 4 show.
1. Things got off to a bad start when Montague began her interview with Simon Kirby, the Chief Executive of High Speed Two, on the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s trip to China for investment for the rail network. Alas, Montague appeared not to have managed to get her head around the purpose of the trip; repeatedly grilling Kirby on whether the project is doomed if the Chinese don’t give up to £12bn to help finance it. He had to explain several times that China are actually being asked to bid for £12bn of contracts:
SM: Could it be done without Chinese money?
SK: The point is today is not announcing Chinese funding of the programme
SM: Look I totally understand that as I made the point that he’s pitching to the Chinese ‘look we’ve got this, put your money here’.
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