Susanna Reid made a savage dig at Boris Johnson's career during Good Morning Britain today.
The television presenter and her co-host Ed Balls were chatting with Ranvir Singh about the Queen's Baton Relay, as it left the Eden Project in Cornwall this morning for its tour around the UK.
It was taken on the zipwire there and Ranvir immediately recalled how zipwires always reminded her of Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the infamous zipwire blunder he experienced whilst Mayor of London.
Discussions soon turned to Boris' career and the long list of difficult career moments to date including his involvement with Partygate and numerous questions over his fitness to lead the country.
As they showed a picture of Boris stuck on the zipwire, Susanna said: "Do you know what? There was a time wasn't there, where many people looked at that and thought, 'Oh that's Boris...'"
Ranvir then chimed in: "He'd trip on the stairs going up to big speeches an all that, and it was quite quirky London -"
"He would forget his notes. It was all very 'oh that's Boris' and then it all got a lot more serious, didn't it?" Susanna added.
The clip of him getting stuck was then played on the ITV show, as Susanna added of the footage: "Here we go, he's on the zipwire, he's waving the flags and then it comes to an undignified halt."
"Let's be honest, compared to what's happened since, it's relatively harmless," her co-host Ed Balls added.
Susanna recently sat down with Boris for a chat on Good Morning Britain, where he admitted the government is failing to help families struggling with the cost of living crisis in the car crash interview.
He faced questions over rising energy bills, inflation and tax hikes as he admitted the £9bn in government help introduced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak was "not going to be enough to immediately cover everyone’s costs".
"I accept that those contributions from the taxpayer – because that’s what it is, taxpayers’ money – isn’t going to be enough immediately to cover everybody’s costs," he said.
"There is more that we can do. But the crucial thing is to make sure we deal with the prices over the medium and long term."
