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BORIS JOHNSON DUCKED out of a live Sky News interview yesterday when it turned into a quiz on the names of world leaders.
Presenter Dermot Murnaghan had been accused of sexism back in September after similarly quizzing Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry. After discussing Brexit with Johnson, he said people had suggested he would not have given the foreign secretary the same treatment, following up by asking him the name of the French foreign minister.
Laughing at first, Johnson said he would be happy to meet the presenter in the pub, if he wanted a pub quiz.
But the French foreign minister is mon ami, Jean-Marc Ayrault.
After launching into a speech about how his previously tense relationship with the French politican had blossomed, Johnson was then asked to name the South Korean president.
“We are not getting into a pub quiz about leaders around the world and I’m going to, with great respect, invite you out to the pub Dermot, so we can take these conversations further,” he responded after a pause.
“I have a terrible feeling if I keep answering you, you will keep coming back with more.”
The British foreign secretary then wished the presenter a good morning and walked off camera. Murnaghan managed to shout the correct answer – Park Geun-hye – at Johnson before he disappeared entirely.
“And bye-bye there to the foreign secretary.”
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Awful professionalism for Sky but that’s to be expected from the tabloid station.
@Cool Lights:
Couldn’t agree more
Or as I call them FOX UK
There’s already a FOX UK. It’s in the entertainment section
@Cool Lights:
Why do all media outlets give this muppet such publicity, the sad and serious aspect is this embelice will be prime minister at some stage in the next 10 years.
Yup ,its a rubbish tabloid nesw channell
@Cool Lights: Boris on the ITV Peston programme last night couldn’t give coherent answers to questions either. The funniest part was when the shows presenter arrived with a cake and told the clearly embarrassed Boris that now he has his cake and could eat it.
@Chris Tobin: RTE is far worse.
@kiswot, I’m shur yur coments wood cary mor wate if you lernd two spel.
Chris I listened to him on two channels Sunday BB and It It reminded me of the Guy who had a jaw of his Arse removed during an operation he must have had the two removed as he was talking through his hole as he seems to have two different answers to the one question It dose not say much for the person who appointed him to a very important position GOD. SAVE THE QUEEN
Boris is bonkers but Murnaghan is an arse for carrying on like that.
It’s BS.
I bet Barack Obama couldn’t name him either. It proves nothing.
Bet Murnahan couldn’t name him either except he looked him up.
@Tom Burke: her*
it may be gender fluid, him or her are just labeling.
Tom, she is named in the article
Sure he knows her as som yung wan
He’s the foreign secretary, it’s his job to know these things ffs!! That’d be like Jurgen klopp not knowing the names of the other managers in the premier league
@Dubabroad :Knowing people or knowing of people is entirely different to remembering their names.
@Dubabroad:
There are only 19 other teams in the Premiership. There are about 196 other countries in the world.
@Nick Allen: well since the UK is a World Super Power surely he should at least a few more than he does say two??
When you are a foreign minister of a country about to leave the world’s largest single market and you don’t know the name of the president of a country in the top ten economies of the world, you really are in some serious trouble
Borris would fit in perfectly here a dam fool
Is that a David Cameron hair style on Boris?
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