Yesterday it was Kwasi Kwarteng
The thrust of the interview was about the Indian Variant and how the government were allowing people to come to the UK from India but had red-listed Bangladesh and Pakistan even though their figures were much lower than India's.
All Kwarteng does is attempt to divert to how successful the vaccine program is - as if that has some bearing on the matter. Ray pulls him back into line...
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Today it was George Eustace - same subject.
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Eustace' angle was that India was testing many more people than the other two countries and therefore the rate was bound to be higher.
Ray doesn't do quite so well here. To my mind he should be pointing out that RATE is not dependant on sample size - that the rate can just as easily go down as up if you test more people.
But he calls Boris and the rest of them liars in quite a satisfying way.
Another thing - although he does a pretty good job here - I wish that he (and others - Piers Morgan was even worse) would simply ask an incisive question and let the interviewee condemn himself with his own words. They tend to say too much themselves and in doing so lose impact.
