Sky News anchor Eamonn Holmes interviewed Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn this morning, and has since been criticised for asking 'inane' questions. A particularly unpopular part of the discussion involved Holmes using a football analogy to describe how important a strong leadership figure is, an analogy which Corbyn immediately dismissed with the claim that running a political party isn't the same as running a football team: Holmes responded with "it so is!"
Holmes also claimed that Corbyn's values of being caring and respectful can't happen on TV due to the risk of people accusing him of "sucking up to" the Labour leader, while forcefully insisting that Corbyn himself doesn't believe in those views and secretly hates the Conservatives. Corbyn denied those claims.
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The clip below from Sky News official YouTube channel shows almost all of the interview, although interestingly cuts off just before Corbyn pleads to Holmes, "Stop trying to pick a fight with me. I'm trying to be respectful and caring I hope you felt it was a respectful and caring interview in a new era of politics, and a new era between you and I."
The interview has been ridiculed on social media and Eamonn Holmes has been a trending topic for most of the day.
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