Tom Harris MP Exit Interview: Spending More Time with his Blog
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In last week’s Britblog Roundup I covered the story that Tom Harris MP, the Rail Minister, had been shown the exit door in Gordon Brown’s reshuffle.
Tom gave a superb interview to BBC Today in Parliament yesterday (10 October).
The interview went out at 11:50pm on a Friday, and will vanish into the BBC Memory Hole in 7 days, so I thought I’d post the item here. It is about 5 minutes long.
Outstanding snippets:
- “I actually assumed I was being promoted.”
- “‘Heaven knows I’m miserable now’ … I expect will be on my gravestone.”
- “I have no idea why I was actually fired.”
Excellent value all round, and some extremely perceptive comments on the pros and cons, opportunities and threats of blogging for Ministers.
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