Newsnight's panel discussion on education, education and education, hosted by Emily Maitlis, featured Labour's Vernon Coaker, the Lib Dem's David Laws and the Conservatives' David Willetts. The statistics tell the story:
Interruption Coefficients
Coaker - 0.3
Laws - 0.5
Willetts - 1
Number of interruptions
Coaker - 1
Laws - 1
Willetts - 4
Number of questions
Coaker - 5
Laws - 1
Willetts - 5
If this anti-Conservative assault from Emily wasn't bad enough for David Willetts, he also faced a joint anti-Tory assault from Coaker and Laws. Not a fair debate.*
In fairness, however, to Emily Maitlis, Willetts returned towards the end of the programme for a second panel discussion with Fiona Millar (Alistair Campbell's no-less-charming partner) and a teacher. This time he was not interrupted at all.
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