Kevin Schofield is Politics Editor of HuffPost UK.
Cleverly was played a secretly-recorded clip of Sutherland, who is standing as a Tory election candidate in Bracknell, on the BBC’s ‘Sunday Withevent in April, he said: “Nobody’s got their cameras on, have they? Phones on? The policy’s crap, OK? It’s crap.
“In Australia, for example, a similar policy had a devastating effect. There is no doubt at all that when those first flights take off, it will send such a shockwave across the Channel that the gangs will stop.”He replied: “It’s important that you played the whole answer. I know James has worked incredibly hard on the policy, and whilst the opening words were clearly designed to shock and grab the attention of the audience, the point he made was absolutely right in the latter part of the quote.
As Cleverly again said he had done so to “grab the attention of the audience”, the presenter asked him: “Why would he do that with a friendly, private audience of Conservative supporters?”
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