VETERAN BBC presenter Nick Robinson has been slammed for demanding Boris Johnson “stop talking” during a fiery interview.
Tory MPs blasted the “disgraceful” treatment of the Prime Minister and called on the Beeb to make an urgent apology.
Their pair clashed on the airwaves this morning as Robinson grilled the PM over the delivery crisis causing chaos at petrol pumps and supermarkets.
But the Today programme host wasn’t happy when BoJo launched into a long-winded answer and brutally cut him off.
After trying to interrupt – which resulted in the two men talking over each other – Robinson finally snapped and demanded the PM “pause”.
He stormed: “Prime Minister, stop talking, we are going to have questions and answers, not where you merely talk, if you wouldn’t mind.”
Disgruntled Mr Johnson grumbled under his breath, appearing to say “well I’m very happy to stop talking”.
Listeners were up in arms at the terse dressing down and turned on Robinson.
Tory Tom Hunt MP stormed: “This is a disgraceful way to talk to a prime minister and seriously calls into question the BBC’s impartiality.
“It’s one thing to ask probing questions but quite another to not even let our head of government finish his sentence.
“If the BBC were serious about being impartial they’d apologise.”
The prime-time interview at the Tory party conference in Manchester was heated right from the off as Robinson swiped at the PM for not coming on his show for two years,
Tensions between Downing Street and the BBC have been tempered in recent years – with ministers boycotting the flagship Today programme for a few months.
