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Anton Savage: Nailing an interview is a tricky science, as Boris Johnson will tell you
The pitfalls of on-air interviewing include technical hiccups, brain farts, and being turned into a meme afterwards
Broadcasters salivate at the prospect of nailing politicians to the floor. Normally that’s a metaphor. It took Boris Johnson to make it literal.
According to LBC presenter Nick Ferrari, the station had to screw the former prime minister’s chair to the floor so that he could not do what they came to call ‘the Boris Bolt.’ During his tenure as mayor of London he was so conscious of social media and the use of clips ...