Kay Burley just empty chaired Tory party chairman James Cleverly and it’s glorious

John Plunkett. Updated November 6th, 2019

Sky News were expecting Tory Party chairman James Cleverly on the Kay Burley show today but he didn’t turn up. So Kay Burley empty chaired him and it’s fair to say she went for it. She really went for it.

“And yet we have an empty chair”

Pretty devastating rundown of Tory blunders by @KayBurley while party chairman James Cleverly is 15ft away and refusing to come on air

pic.twitter.com/JIpGmmBBPY

— Matt Chorley (@MattChorley) November 6, 2019

Just beautifully done. And what they should do to every politician who fails to turn up (although that could be a lot of empty chairs on our screens …)

Just in case you wondered why Cleverly didn’t appear, then it might have something to do with the morning he’s had so far.

Campaign today

-Tory Party Chairman James Cleverly:

Apologises for Rees-Mogg

Apologises for candidate said poor people should be 'put down'

Tries to explain faked video

Says he has confidence in Minister caught in collapse of rape trial

-And it's not 9am@BBCr4today

— Paul Johnson (@paul__johnson) November 6, 2019

Or it might have been this.

apparently James Cleverly agreed to go on the @KayBurley show but didn’t specify a time….he got empty-chaired when he refused to go on air “at that moment”….if so….curious

— Jim Pickard (@PickardJE) November 6, 2019

Anyway, here are just a few of the things people were saying about it.

https://twitter.com/leonardocarella/status/1192014301160235008?s=20

I have never seen anything like this!

Kay Burley conducts an interview on an empty chair because Tory James Cleverly is too frit to appear, despite the fact as Burley points out angrily, he's only standing 15 feet away from her!

Tbh she probably gets more sense out the chair pic.twitter.com/tluViAq3zd

— Chelley Ryan #WeAreCollective (@chelleryn99) November 6, 2019

how is this still the best interview the Tories have done all week

— James Felton (@JimMFelton) November 6, 2019

To conclude …

https://twitter.com/davidschneider/status/1192001689341046784?s=20