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Nick Robinson made headlines by interrupting the PM in an interview last year - but does he give Boris a harder time because they were rivals when they both studied at Oxford?
As Nick Robinson draws ire for telling the Prime Minister to 'stop talking', our critic dissects the delicate art of the '8.10am' interview
The BBC decided not to admonish Mr Robinson after he ordered Mr Johnson to 'stop talking' live on air yesterday in an incendiary interview that has upset No 10 and Conservative MPs.
Judith Woods12:05, Apr 30 2021 OPINION: Gossip is good for you. Who knew? Apart from every woman on the planet. Except we consider it, far less pejoratively, to be a crucial line of communication; of facts and fictions, opinion and mood. Gossip, you see, is about people rather than things, which makes it the most valuable of social currencies. To paraphrase Churchill; a scurrilous rumour will get halfway around the world before the snoring, boring truth has had time to put on its boots. It’s why the lurid details of Boris Johnson and Carrie Symond’s boudoir wallpaper (solid gold, so the...
Lib Dem activist, writer and lecturer whose international outlook was reflected in BBC radio broadcasts from all round the world