‘Don’t patronise me!’: Moment BBC’s Andrew Marr blasts Labour’s Shami Chakrabarti in awkward exchange over Brexit agreement
- Marr and Labour’s Shadow Attorney General feuded live on his BBC ONE show
- He questioned why Remainer wanted General Election on a pro-Brexit manifesto
- She replied: ‘I’m a democrat Andrew, I don’t know about you, but I’m a democrat’
- He barked back: ‘Don’t try and patronise me, I’m as much a democrat as you are’
Andrew Marr blasted Shami Chakrabarti for ‘patronising him’ live on air during an awkward interview about Brexit.
Marr and Labour’s Shadow Attorney General had been feuding on his Sunday Morning Politics programme, live on BBC One, about Theresa May’s EU withdrawal draft this morning.
Tensions frayed when Marr questioned why Remainer Chakrabarti supported plans to seek a General Election on a pro-Brexit manifesto.
The host said: ‘I can’t understand why you want to leave the EU. You’re going to go to a general election campaign as a member of a party whose manifesto says “we are leaving the EU, we are EU-exit enablers”.’
She replied: ‘I’m a democrat, I don’t know about you Andrew, but I’m a democrat.’
Marr and Labour’s Shadow Attorney General Shami Chakrabarti share heated exchange on his Sunday Morning Politics programme
After questioning why Remainer Chakrabarti supported plans to seek a General Election on a pro-Brexit manifesto, she replied: ‘I don’t know about you Andrew, but I’m a democrat’
Rattled Marr barked back: ‘Don’t try and patronise me, I’m as much a democrat as you are’
A rattled Marr then told her: ‘Don’t try and patronise me, I’m as much a democrat as you are.’
‘I certainly wouldn’t try to patronise you. I’m sure you would never try and patronise me,’ Chakribarti said.
Some Twitter users branded Marr a ‘hypocrite’ and suggested he’d been patronising and interrupting her throughout the interview.
Others jumped to his defence and praised him for retaliating.
Minutes before they came to blows, Marr questioned whether Chakribarti had read all 525 pages of Theresa May’s draft Brexit agreement.
Baroness Chakribarti replied: ‘Yes I have actually. As I’m sure you have too.’
Marr said: ‘I’ve read an awful lot of it, yeah.’
The pair’s comments come after Jeremy Corbyn admitted to Sky News that he hadn’t read all of the Brexit draft.