Good Morning Britain viewers were left fuming at their TV screens following “smug” journalist Quentin Letts’s appearance on the show.
Susanna Reid was back hosting the ITV breakfast show on Thursday morning (February 2) alongside Ben Shepard.
The presenting duo welcomed Quentin into the studio – but the journalist didn’t go down too well with people watching the show at home.
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Quentin was in the GMB studio to give his verdict on Rishi Sunak’s first 100 days as Prime Minister.
Referring to some of the latest headlines, host Susanna Reid asked him: “Are people genuinely talking about Liz Truss coming back and bidding to be Prime Minister again?”
“No,” Quentin immediately snapped back, before adding: “That story is politicised baloney.”
He continued: “I’m surprised by the idea that Sunak won’t be fighting the next general election. That strikes me as very ill-guided. I mean, I think he will be there and I think he’ll probably do quite well.
“Going back to your thing about politicians though -” he quipped.
“Them becoming presenters and journalists?” Susanna clarified.
Quentin then interrupted the co-host, saying: “The thing about telly and politics, they both demand a certain sort of plastic radiance, if I can put it like that.”
He went on: “And that is what Sunak is not so great at.
“Mind you, he’s up against a man who’s sort of a constipated donkey – old Starmer.
“So it’s going to be a bit like a sort of bottom-of-the-table shootout, if I can go to a football metaphor, with the two leaders of the next election. It is going to be strangely unexciting.”
It seems Quentin’s constant interruptions left viewers fuming – with many taking to Twitter to call out the “smug” journalist.
(Image: ITV)
“Ah…f***… Quentin Letts,” one viewer raged.
Another added: “This Quentin Letts fella is a right pain in the arsenal. Smart comments and interrupting nonsense are fine on Twitter, on TV he just looks like a confused moaning pensioner.”
“Please answer my question …. Quentin Letts why?” A third viewer mused.
A fourth agreed: “No idea why, but Quentin Letts gets my hackles up.”
“Oh dear, smug & smirking Quentin Letts on GMB again,” proclaimed someone else.
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