The PM I didn’t interview

A shocking memory from my early days as a journalist

Rishi Sunak’s “address to the nation” yesterday was slickly produced — though the cutaway shots of him in half-profile reading from an unseen teleprompter looked distinctly odd.

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The video reminds me of a shocking day in 1979 when party political broadcasts, as we called them, used to be recorded in-house by the BBC. I was then a radio producer working in a unit that made programmes such as The Week in Westminster and Talking Politics.