Fully takes the minus offer at Brussels
Theresa May watches ITV’s The Chase while going through her Brexit papers.
Footage featured in tonight’s Panorama on the BBC shows the Prime Minister and her husband Philip watching the Beast and Bradley Walsh do their thing.
The couple were watching at Chequers as Mrs May went through her red box of official papers with a cup of tea in fine china.
During the broadcast, Philip remarks: “This is rather menacing.”
The Prime Minister replies: “I think that’s the idea, to put pressure on the contestant.” Philip then shouts out an answer before moving conversation onto a flower display on the coffee table.
Somewhat surprisingly, Mrs May and her husband were both wearing suits for their daytime TV session. As one does.
The rest of TV programme, which saw BBC reporter Nick Robinson spend two weeks with the Prime Minister, focused on Brexit and its assorted negotiating.
Here is the PM’s totally non-cyclical assessment of the state of negotiations: “What I’m doing as Prime Minister, what we’re doing as a government, and what we did here at Chequers in putting the plan together, is put a plan together that delivers on the vote that people took. Because it means an end to free movement, an end to jurisdiction of the European Court, an end to sending vast sums of money, and other things like coming out of the fisheries policy, the agricultural policy. But at the same time we’re able to protect jobs and livelihoods.”
