Is there something in the water at BBC broadcasting house? First Theresa May appears on Marr where she refuses to answer a question on Trident four times, then Diane Abbott comes up blank four times on Sunday Politics when asked about Labour’s Brexit position.
The shadow home secretary struggled as Andrew Neil asked her a series of questions regarding her party’s position on exiting the European Union. Although Jeremy Corbyn previously suggested there would be a three-line whip on MPs to vote for Article 50, Abbott refused four times to say how the party will whip the vote. In an attempt to clarify her party’s Brexit stance, Abbott went on to say that ‘money is neither here nor there’ regarding paying the EU funds post-Brexit — while insisting that Labour’s position is ‘rooted in reality’:
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