Peter Hoskin

Spinner unspun

UPDATE: The below video has now been taken down from YouTube, but Guido has another copy here.

Guido was first to this video of Downing St’s Director of Communications, Craig Oliver, remonstrating with the political correspondent Norman Smith about the tone of a BBC report — but it’s worth posting again here. Mr Oliver, it seems, didn’t realise that the camera was still running, showing the public more than they usually see of Westminster politics:

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