anchor skewered a MP who was left stuttering live on the show.
MP Alison McGovern appeared on the programme to discuss the Southport stabbings case after Axell Rudakubana’s guilty plea, with sentencing expected later this week.
The government has come under fire for withholding information from the public about the incident being treated as terrorism.
Things turned awkward as Alison insisted: “I just know that wouldn’t want to do anything that could put a prosecution at risk.”
Kay interrupted her to ask: “How would it have put a trial at risk? I don’t get it, because in October of course, it was announced he was charged with the ricin in his house and also the terror manual that he had downloaded. So the details were revealed before the trial, so obviously it couldn’t prejudice a trial.”
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Kay Burley skewered a Labour MP (Image: Sky News)
Alison said: “Politicians’ words can have consequences and I think Keir as a very senior lawyer will have taken that-“
Kay fumed: “Why withhold information from the public when it’s so important?” and Alison was forced to say that questions would be answered in the inquiry, stuttering slightly as she said: “I understand people’s concern. The most important thing is we were able to get some tiny bit of justice for those families.”
Things turned tense on the programme (Image: Sky News)
Kay insisted: “That’s nothing to do with not telling us that this could well have been a terror incident. It didn’t stop him in 2017, for example, when he tweeted about the Finsbury Park bombing and saying then that it was a terror attack.”
Alison apologised: “I’m sorry to repeat myself, but you have to- I under- I understand-“
Kay summed it up by saying: “You understand the Prime Minister should be telling us what’s going on? It’s a privilege that he has that job. He should be telling the people of the country what’s happening. That’s nothing to do with the court case, is it?”