"And I think it's time, if we can, to end that practice of just saying, 'I don't know anything about it' - especially because Rishi Sunak really drew a line in the sand."Įarlier our senior Ireland correspondent David Blevins explained the significance of the local election results in Northern Ireland after Sinn Fein emerged as the largest party in local government for the first time. "And defence for that may be that it was too early on a Sunday morning, and even maybe the suggestion that the home secretary isn't up on a Sunday morning, reading some of the newspapers that she's on the front of."īates adds: "I think this is an issue that we have to get around with ministers because they come on these programmes to be accountable for what's going in government. "We see ministers coming on these programmes and saying, 'Well, I don't know anything about it.'" Our political correspondent Liz Bates has been responding to what she called an "extraordinary" interview between Environment Secretary Therese Coffey and Sophy Ridge this morning.ĭuring the interview, Ms Coffey said repeatedly that she did not know the "details" of Suella Braverman's speeding fine or whether she asked civil servants to get her on a private speeding awareness course to avoid a public one.īates tells Ridge that the tactic of claiming ignorance was one the public saw during the days of the Boris Johnson government.
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