Fiona: McVey is lying about her ITV ‘promotion’
FORMER GMTV host Fiona Phillips has accused MP Esther McVey of “telling untruths” to explain why Lorraine Kelly “snubbed” her on Good Morning Britain.
Tory leadership hopeful Ms McVey was left squirming when Lorraine told Piers Morgan “I don’t remember” when asked about working with her during a brief stint at GMTV in 1999.
Ms McVey later claimed Kelly’s cold reaction was because she had been “promoted to partnering with Eamonn Holmes” above her.
But Mirror columnist Fiona took Lorraine’s side, saying:
“My mum told me at a young age: ‘Don’t bother telling untruths because you’ll always get found out.’ I wonder if Esther McVey was told that as a child? Esther reckons she’d been so good she was promoted to partner Eamonn. “How strange because she didn’t have a job at GMTV until she covered my three-month maternity in 1999. How could she have been ‘promoted’, then, from a job she’d never held in the first place? Hmmmm.” Yesterday Lorraine said she too was puzzled by Ms McVey’s claim she leapfrogged her: “I’m baffled. I had my own show from 1992 and I don’t think she joined until five years later.” Lorraine added: “I strongly disagree with her on LGBT rights.” Expressing disgust at toxic politics, she said: “We’ve got people at each other’s throats.”
THE growing revolt against axing free TV licences for 3.7 million pensioners is the sound of a noble fight intensifying.
The next Tory PM must be forced to stop this unjust attack on the welfare, comfort and security of folk who worked hard all their lives and deserve a little support in retirement.
Tory former Culture Secretary John Whittingdale’s admission the Government predicted means-testing by a bullied BBC and the 2017 Conservative manifesto pledge to maintain pensioner benefits pins blame for this fiasco not on the BBC but Downing Street.
Many, perhaps most, of those just above the pension credit poverty line who would be forced to pay £154.40 a year from June 2020 survive on small occupational pensions – so could no way be classed as rich.
Boris Johnson with his £10billion tax cuts for big earners and other potential successors to Theresa May showering gifts on the wealthy must be challenged to save free TV for OAPs.