Tag: Ian Hislop

"I am not convinced he has been punished enough - unlike the poor boys his friend so mercilessly flogged in the name of Christianity."

The debate over whether Angela Rayner paid the correct amount of tax on her council house has become a constant Tory smear of late.

The Private Eye editor has been in a long-running feud with the ex-editor of the Daily Mirror.

Ian Hislop also openly questioned if Rishi Sunak 'should be in jail', after he dished out a controversial knighthood last week.

"The Tory party are almost entirely funded by Russian oligarchs, most of whom are sanctioned," he said.

“I mean, it is absolutely fatuous for this government to claim, ‘hey, we’re really acting now’.”

While many have lauded Naga Munchetty for her stinging rebuke, others were left cursing the BBC presenter.

Ian Hislop launched a scathing attack against Boris Johnson, ripping into the former Prime Minister for his COVID Inquiry testimony.

"Normally we go though the honours list looking for people who are dodgy. This year we went through looking for anyone who wasn't."