Tory MP Matt Hancock has admitted politicians often don't answer questions they don't like - and explained how they do it. Speaking on I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here the former Health Secretary said he has had decades of answering the questions he wants to answer - no matter what is put to him.
And he said it was down to a technique used by many known as the "pivot". Explaining what he meant he said they would find a way of turning the question around so they could answer something they wanted to say rather than deal with the actual question.
According to the Daily Star the MP was being quizzed by Seann Walsh about the way politicians manage to seem calm and unruffled when interviewed by people. And he commented that they always seemed to say what they want to say.
So the MP was candid in his response. And he explained exactly how they often manage to avoid the trickier questions.
He said: "Firstly practice and prep. I've got like 20 years of answering the question I want to answer, not the one that is given, right.
"Blair used the word 'look' if people would ask a difficult question. He would say 'Look what I came here to talk about was my marvellous programme' and such and such.
"I mean, in politics it is called the pivot. And so you have to give enough link to the question that it doesn't look like you're avoiding the question whilst pivoting - and a good pivot is admirable."
Seann replied: "So can politicians literally watch an interview sometimes and see a pivot and be like, 'good pivot'?" Hancock nodded and said yes.
Walsh said afterwards: "I've never seen a politician talk about how they dodged the bullets. And he was there just going 'look, this is how we do it'."
