Watch: Dr Dre interrupts Coffey’s first interview

Therese Coffey is a well-known music lover. When she’s not reciting prayers for Queen and country, she’s enlivening the corridors of parliament with her karaoke singing. But this morning the newly appointed Health Secretary suffered a moment of slight embarrassment after her ring tone went off in her first broadcast interview on LBC.

Interviewer Nick Ferrari is used to his guests practicing all kinds of trick to evade questioning when they enter his studios but even he can’t have been prepared for the lyrical offerings of Dr Dre at 8:00 a.m. Coffey explained it was her ring tone for an alarm that she had forgot to switch off. He shot back ‘Dr Dre with Dr Coffey, the Health Secretary, it just gets better and better!’

Good to see the new minister is clearly passionate about doctors in the health service…