It's always a pleasure to speak to The World Tonight.
Go live on air now?
Yes, of course, I'd be delighted to.
Robin, my pleasure.
Nice to be with you.
Yes. Before I answer that question, may I say how delighted I am, as we all are in the department,
at the excitement and enthusiasm that our Benefit Fraud Inspection Unit has created.
I announced at a press conference this new Benefit Fraud Inspection Unit,
which we are hoping to call...
Sponge Avengers,
and, um, at that press conference
there seems to have been a bit of a blip
because many of the journalists didn't pick up on the announcement.
They're so much looking for...
ON RADIO: 'a bit of scandal or incompetence, so that statement'
that the policy was the invention of a disgruntled civil servant
was actually the invention of a disgruntled civil servant.
No, there's only one disgruntled civil servant, because one of them's...one of them's an invention
by the other one, you see?
Anyone listening carefully would have thought I sounded completely mad. No, you came over loud and clear.
It's going to put the whole thing to bed, anyway. Kill it.
And Olly's offered Angela a Private Life piece about you. Oh, great(!)
A Sunday with you and the family, go for a walk, spend time with you.
She'll be checking through my books and snooping in my bathroom cabinet
and making snide remarks about how I don't know who Gail Porter is! We did dick her about, Hugh. Yeah.
And we're getting a roasting at the moment
from what has been dubbed flip-flop Friday,
so we need all the help from friends we can get right now. I know.
Look, what do you think?
Well, I just think that...
I want a new driver. I don't want to see this guy ever again.
On what grounds?
Smiling. Inappropriate smiling.
And smirking. Smiling and smirking.
I don't want to see that smile or smirk ever again. OK?
OK, thank you very much. Which way do you want to go? Blackwall Tunnel?