News Coverage UK Prime Minister & Government Resignations

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Surely this means that This Morning and Loose Women won't air today.

I never understand comments like this.

When a big breaking story happens, you can't escape it - there are a million and one places you can watch/hear coverage, but not everyone is interested in watching hours of rolling coverage of - in this case - the front door of 10 Downing Street and endless speculation about what happens next and who will take over...

You have to allow people an alternative.

This Morning, Loose Women, etc. - as much as they are 'fluff' telly - offer useful respite/distraction/variety to people on days like this, and should - in my view, at least - absolutely air as planned.

I agree, we had the mad suggestion yesterday that ITV should have aired the PM select committee instead of Tenable and Tipping Point and with the best will in the world, that’s not something that appeals to ordinary people and ITV aren’t going to want to air it given they’d be losing ad money.

This Morning was brilliant during the lockdowns and probably was more valuable than hours of rolling news which I suspect if the news junkies on here had their way, they’d have replaced anything light and non serious with rolling news.