Today’s Good Morning Britain saw Susanna Reid joined by Labour MP Angela Rayner via video link where she tried to defend Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn after he claimed he watches the Queen’s Speech “in the morning”. The speech traditionally airs at 3pm on Christmas Day, meaning the politician could not watch it earlier on in the day.
Ms Rayner was keen to defend the Labour leader as she said he could watch it on “catch up”.
She told Ms Reid: “He might watch it on catch up, some of us do, some of us have dinner at different times.
“I don’t necessarily think that means that he has lied… This is clutching at straws.”
She then went on to insist Mr Corbyn would catch up on the speech on Boxing Day.
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However, Ms Reid was not impressed with her remarks and was quick to call her out.
“Sorry to interrupt Ms Rayner, but Jeremy Corbyn did not say he watched the Queen’s speech on catch up the following morning,” she began.
“He said he watched the Queen’s message in the morning on Christmas Day.”
This only riled Ms Rayner further as she hit back: “He didn’t say that.
“He did not say he watched it in the morning on Christmas Day, he said he watched it in the morning. That’s semantics.”
She continued claiming the television schedule could be “confusing” adding: “What I’m saying is from my own experience, I watch programmes sometimes, sometimes I watch them on catch up, sometimes I watch it at the time it’s at, most kids these days including my kids watch it on YouTube or whatever.
“So it can be confusing about which times people watch something at because you don’t have to watch it like we used to do when I was a kid going by the TV guide.”
Earlier in the day, Ms Rayner joined Naga Munchetty on BBC Breakfast where Labour’s education plans were ripped apart.
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Ms Rayner insisted Labour would be adding 45,000 more teachers to the system and would “fix” classroom sizes.
She told Ms Munchetty: “You’re saying 47,000 I’m saying 45,000 and plus more people will come through.
“I’m saying that will bring in those new teachers will have 25,000 that are unqualified that will become qualified and 20,000, if you look at the last seven years we’ve lost those teachers.
“We’ve got a crisis in our teaching at the moment and the class sizes are increasing we will decrease the class sizes and cap them.”
Ms Munchetty was not impressed as she hit back: “Do you know what people might find refreshing if you just honestly said we can’t fix this, in one parliament we can’t fix this because the National Audit Office says we need 55,000 new teachers we can get to 45.
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“You’re not fixing it cause you’re not getting enough in. You can’t fix it during parliament because you’re proposing 45,000 when we need 55,000.”
But Ms Rayner continued to insist it was possible, telling her: “We can fix it.
“We have said that we will bring in those teachers in the next few years – to increase that, we will make sure that the teachers are in place to make sure our class sizes are below 30.”
Good Morning Britain airs weekdays on ITV at 6am. BBC Breakfast also airs weekdays on BBC One at 6am.
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