Digested week: Do we really have to see Liz Truss at the Cenotaph for the next 30 years? | John Crace

At some point even Liz won’t remember why she’s there. Meanwhile, Nige wants more air time, and Boris Johnson couldn’t have made less effort

Like most people, I assume, I had always thought the Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph was a time to think of those who died in the two world wars and later armed conflicts. It turns out that Richard Tice, the deputy leader of Reform, sees it differently. I was listening to Dicky being interviewed on the Jeremy Kyle show on TalkTV – yes, I know, I’ve only myself to blame – when suddenly he went into a tirade on the BBC’s coverage of the service. His principal complaint was that Nigel Farage had not been given enough air time, though he later morphed into a rant about antisemitism. I never did quite work out how the two were meant to be linked. I’m sure the BBC will reflect seriously on this lapse of judgment in its debrief of the programme and will next year have several cameras trained on Nige throughout the service. It should be renamed: “A Nation Mourns with Nigel.”

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