Matt Hancock has revealed the secret way politicians avoid answering questions by using a “pivot” technique.
The shamed MP was grilled on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here by pal Seann Walsh about how politicians always seem calm in interviews and say what the want to say.
But Hancock went further and illustrated how they also avoid questions, a growing problem in political interviews in the last few years.
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Hancock said: “Firstly practice and prep. I’ve got like 20 years of answering the question I want to answer, not the one that is given, right.
“Blair used the word ‘look’ right if people would ask a difficult question.
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“He would say ‘Look what I came here to talk about was my marvellous programme’ and such and such.
“I mean, in politics it is called the pivot. And so you have to give enough link to the question that it doesn’t look like you’re avoiding the question whilst pivoting – and a good pivot is admirable.”
Seann replied: “So can politicians literally watch an interview sometimes and see a pivot and be like, ‘good pivot’?”
Hancock nodded and said yes.
Walsh said afterwards: “I’ve never seen a politician talk about how they dodged the bullets. And he was there just going ‘look, this is how we do it’.”
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Hancock’s entry into I’m A Celeb has caused controversy across the country and the MP underwent questioning from campmate Babatúndé Aléshé about his affair.
Babatúndé asked Matt: “How have things been?”, to which Matt replied: “It was really tough.”
The actor insisted: “Because you messed up,” prompting Matt to admit: “I messed up and I fessed up. I resigned and it’s no excuse but I fell in love, right? That also had a lot of other consequences obviously.”
Babatúndé then cheekily added: “You didn’t just ‘fell in love’ you were grabbing booty bruv!”
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