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Suella, The Home Office and the Holocaust survivor

The News Agents

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David Cameron: You Don't Have to Accept the Premise of the Question

You went obviously from this sort of politically very neutral position at the BBC to being the person who had to make sure that David Cameron's message got through. Did you feel sympathetic to what the journalists were trying to do? Or did you instantly feel that your man was being misunderstood? No, there is definitely a sense in which you have to be accountable. I think what I found going from the up to the other side of the fence was how few journalists understood how difficult it really is for politicians sometimes. You know, he's got a day which is packed. He's doing X, Y and Z. He thinks I'm just delivering a clip. And suddenly he's confronted by a guy

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