There’s been a lot of interest in Operation Embarrass lately. This the Leigh and Lashmar version some thirty years ago this year for The Observer.

Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis interview with Jeremy Hunt last night on the winter crisis in hospitals was a masterclass in political interviewing. Completely on top of the brief she was measured, balanced, clear, precise and she got the tone exactly right. I might have said surgical if it wasn’t an item on the NHS. Hunt was left with a platitudinous line of defence even citing health service pressures in Australia to suggest the current mess was not exceptional. Most ridiculously he would not admit there is a crisis though anyone who has contact with NHS in the last week or so knows there is one. Hunt really does not have the gravitas expected of a Secretary of State for Health. The whole Newsnight report on the NHS was excellent. Well done BBC. That is what journalism is there for.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09l64hy/newsnight-03012018

Newsnight – 03/01/2018
With Emily Maitlis.
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