8 local radio presenters have been awarded for “holding Lizz Truss to account” after the then Prime Minister’s disastrous interviews in September last year.
The Broadcasting Press Guild award will be shared by:
Rima Ahmed, from BBC Radio Leeds
James Hanson, from BBC Radio Bristol
Graham Liver, from BBC Radio Lancashire
Anna Cookson, from BBC Radio Kent
John Acres from BBC Radio Stoke
Chris Goreham, from BBC Radio Norfolk
Sarah Julian, from BBC Radio Nottingham
Amy Oakden, from BBC Radio Tees
“As an organisation of journalists, the BPG is always among the first to see the value of great interviewing – and these BBC radio interviews were game-changing for Liz Truss and her doomed government,” stated Grant Tucker, Chair of the Broadcasting Press Guild.
“There is no doubt that the PM’s feet were held to the fire in these eight radio sessions in a way that stood out among so much drama that was happening in British politics last summer.”
Truss, who had remained silent following Chancellor Kwasi Kwateng’s “mini-budget” which sent the markets into overdrive, decided her first media interviews should be on BBC local radio.
That led Rima Ahmed to open questioning on Radio Leeds with “Where’ve yer bin?” and it didn’t get much better for the Prime Minister after that.
