The worst interview of all time?

Tom Peck writes at The Independent:

To wonder whether Neil/Corbyn was as bad as Frost/Nixon or Maitlis/York is to ask the wrong question, really. Because the sheer agony of it could not be contained within the parameters of the simple TV interview format.

Anyone idly flicking through the channels and alighting on BBC One at 7pm might have imagined themselves to have stumbled upon one of those old Japanese humiliation endurance game shows as featured on Tarrant on TV, but with the really cruel twist that there was absolutely no prize at the end. Quite the opposite, in fact.

For the sheer range and volume of horrors, it can only really be compared to a montage that has now been quite rightly taken off YouTube, featuring all the horrific injuries suffered by various contestants on Channel 4’s ill-considered extreme sports celebrity show The Jump.

The Conservatives should just run the interview in place of their closing address.

We would learn that he would stay neutral on Brexit and during his own second referendum he would just “get on with running the government”, which means there wouldn’t actually be anyone to lead the campaign to vote for his own deal that he had negotiated – which might seem rather odd

Believe it or not his policy is that he will negotiate a better deal with the EU than Boris Johnson, but then not campaign for the deal!