Because journalists at the press conferences are asking questions through the prism of establishing political culpability, they are not asking the questions that matter (1/10)
Robbie Gibb
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Robbie Gibb
@RobbieGibb
Senior Adviser, Kekst CNC | Non-Exec Director, BBC Board | Fmr Director of Comms, No10 | Fmr Head of BBC Westminster | Chair Westminster #LUFC supporters club
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Joined March 2009
- An impressive performance by Dom Cummings with lots of details and a clear rebuttal of some of the media’s coverage of the story, which have been shown to be false. I predict the story will no longer be leading the broadcast running orders by the end of the week.
- This audience feels like it’s full political activists rather than typical voters. #bbcqt
- Channel 4 News revealed, yet again, to have a total disregard for impartiality. Less than a week before the election they have been caught doctoring footage to smear the PM as a racist. The head of Channel 4 should go on C4 News tonight to make a public apology.Boris Johnson says “people of talent” not “people of colour.” Our earlier tweet was a mistake. We misheard and we apologise.
- This is genuinely not a purely party political point, but I really don’t understand how anyone in Britain could possibly vote Labour with these people leading the party. I just don’t understand it.
- Is there anyone more damaging to the BBC's reputation for impartiality than @lewis_goodall ? This is so off the scale I don't even know where to begin.This week's cover: How the government's ineptitude created a lost generation. Featuring @stephenkb and @lewis_goodall.
- It remains one of the great mysteries of our age how Channel 4 news is not drowning under a sea of complaints to the watchdog Ofcom so flagrant is its political bias.
- I’m proud of the BBC’s Gary O’Donoghue whose amazing live reporting from the Trump rally captured the full significance of events. He kept his composure on air and somehow found and interviewed the key eye witness to the gunman’s actions. Gary embodies the BBC at its very best.
- 1.9 million Leave voters say they would now vote to Remain. But 2.4 million Remain voters would now vote to Leave. The country hasn’t changed its mind. (Deltapoll, Sun on Sunday) #RoadtoBrexit
- Replying to @RobbieGibbSince the crisis began there has been a collapse in confidence in the media across all four countries in the survey - the biggest fall being in the UK with a 21% net loss in confidence (5/7)
- Trapped by its own woke group think, the Today programme - or radio misery as my friends call it - bombards its listeners with a relentlessly negative and sneering tone and paints a picture of Britain that is monstrously out of touch. #today
- The EU know that the Withdrawal Agreement will not get through Parliament with the current backstop unchanged. If the EU won’t change its red lines it will be the fault of the EU, not the UK, that we leave with no deal.
- The EU still seems to treat the UK like an exiting country trying to negotiate the terms of its withdrawal. It has not quite clocked the UK has already left. We are a third party wanting to do a deal with the EU, not applying to remain in its legal orbit - in tomorrow’s Telegraph
- During crunch talks with Labour to get Theresa’s May’s deal through, Labour’s Brexit spokesman, Sir Keir Starmer, condemned a document we had just given him – even though it had been copied and pasted from his own proposals!
