Susanna Reid’s forensic dismantling of Boris Johnson had everyone applauding – 23 favourite responses
Boris Johnson broke his long-standing boycott of ITV’s Good Morning Britain today, but if he was expecting an easier ride from Susanna Reid than he would have got from Piers Morgan, he was sorely mistaken.
Morning! @gmb live at Downing St from 0600 with our interview with the Prime Minister after 8am pic.twitter.com/xh6Y5tnBZX
— Susanna Reid (@susannareid100) May 3, 2022
Indeed, the interview was pretty much all anyone was talking about ahead of this week’s local elections in which the Conservatives are predicted to lose as many as 550 council seats.
Here’s how the interview started for Johnson …
'Are you honest Prime Minister?' – @susannareid100
Watch GMB on ITV and ITV Hub now as Susanna interviews Prime Minister Boris Johnson 👉 https://t.co/6iQ6ebeOEQ pic.twitter.com/GyYTdGSn8v
— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) May 3, 2022
… and it went downhill from there for the blustering, beleaguered PM.
.@susannareid100 tells the PM about 77-year-old Elsie who eats one meal a day and stays on the bus all day to avoid using energy at home.
She questions the PM about the comments he made about people having to make choices about what they spend their money on. pic.twitter.com/26b7kPuBNh
— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) May 3, 2022
We’ve read all the reactions – well, quite a few of them – so you don’t have to and here are our 23 favourites.
1.
Watching Susanna Reid roast the Prime Minister over honesty and the cost of living, you can understand why he'd previously avoided GMB by hiding in a fridge
— Alexander Brown (@AlexofBrown) May 3, 2022
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— Cold War Steve (@coldwarsteve) May 3, 2022
3.
BREAKING: Man who just got absolutely fucking savaged by Susanna Reid would like you to know he is definitely the man to face down Vladimir Putin x
— Laura Kuenssberg beyond parody (@LKTranslator) May 3, 2022
4.
On the phone to 999 because Susanna Reid just committed a murder in No 10.
This is obviously a joke because if she had, I wouldn’t grass her up. Besides which, we don’t have any police.
— Supertanskiii (@supertanskiii) May 3, 2022
5.
‘Are you honest Prime Minister?’ pic.twitter.com/58f0mHyC5o
— Matthew Highton (@MattHighton) May 3, 2022
6.
How long before Boris’s apologists say he was hypnotised by @susannareid100’s legs
— Mitch Benn (@MitchBenn) May 3, 2022
7.
Susanna Reid better be careful or Nadine Dorries will threaten to privatise her.
— joe heenan (@joeheenan) May 3, 2022
8.
If Morgan had still been there you’d have got this superficial theatre of shouty-shouty anger. But with Reid, you get something far more deadly: structured questioning with substance.
— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) May 3, 2022
9.
Utterly superb interviewing of Boris Johnson by Susanna Reid. Left him looking like the Emperor who has no clothes.
— Matthew Stadlen (@MatthewStadlen) May 3, 2022
10.
“Are you honest, Prime Minister?”
His answer was another lie, of course, but it felt like a weight lifting just to listen to @susannareid100 address this straight to him, on national television, with the calm tenacity & seriousness that it deserves.
pic.twitter.com/Ie8Wez5fLv— Mike Galsworthy (@mikegalsworthy) May 3, 2022
11.
Seems as if @susannareid100 did the great job I was expecting. Well briefed, courteous, professional but firm, steely and doing the job journalists are there to deliver, asking the questions the public need answered. A breath of fresh air in an age of shock jock stale old men.
— Brendan May (@bmay) May 3, 2022