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Labour MP calls Sky News' Kay Burley "a bit dim"

Chris Bryant attacks the Sky News anchor over her knowledge of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal.

A BRITISH MP has labelled one of Sky News’ best-known faces “a bit dim” over her level of interviewing in response to a parliamentary discussion on the phone-hacking affair.

Chris Bryant, who led today’s discussion in Britain’s House of Commons, was being interviewed by Kay Burley (pictured) and had asserted that the illegal practice of phone-hacking was rife among the newspaper industry.

Here, courtesy of the Guardian’s politics blog, is the key part of the interview:

Burley: Do you have evidence for that?

Bryant: Sorry, for what?

Burley: Do you have evidence that it is endemic not only at the News of the World but other newspapers? Pretty strong claim if you don’t.

Bryant: Well, the Information Commissioner produced a report which if you had listened to the debate earlier yourself then you would know, or if you had read that report then you would see that he referred to more than 1,000 cases in various different newspapers. I think it was something like 800 – I’ve not got the figures with me now – 800 incidences in the Mail alone.

Burley: So you are in a position to have listened to the debate and read the report and as a result you are content to say that on telly.

Bryant: I have just said that. You seem to be a bit dim, if you don’t mind me saying so.

The relevant segment of the video begins at 1m37.

This isn’t the first time that Kay Burley has found herself in the firing line: in the aftermath of the general election in May she found herself being heckled live on air in response to her heavy-handed interviewing tactics.