Alison Hammond's 'awkward' interview with Rishi Sunak as he's grilled on This Morning

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Thursday's instalment of This Morning made for uncomfortable viewing after Rishi Sunak joined hosts Alison Hammond and Craig Doyle to discuss his decision on not ordering an inquiry into the Suella Braverman speeding row.It comes as the home secretary allegedly asked civil servants to arrange a private one-to-one speed awareness course after being caught speeding last year.

Ms Braverman said in the Commons on Monday that she “paid the fine” and “took the penalty”, adding: “at no point did I attempt to evade sanction”ITV viewers couldn't help but notice the very 'awkward' interview which took place on the morning programme when television personality Alison accused the Prime Minister of letting Braverman "off the hook"."You said she hasn't broken any rules but it is a distraction from the things we need to sort out, isn't it?" Alison added when speaking to the Prime Minister, according to reports in the Mirror."I haven't let her off the hook.

I've gone through the details," Sunak replied as the host hit back: "Did she break the rules?""No, she didn't break the ministerial code and I've spent time going through it.

And not just that I've also asked my independent adviser, the government and the Prime Minister has an independent adviser on these things, he's also met with her she's made a fulsome disclosure about what's happened, she's expressed regret," Sunak continued.Interjecting, Craig remarked: "She looks for the option to break the ministerial code, she took advice on ways around it, let’s be honest.""She took her advice and she herself has said that she might have done things differently now in hindsight, and that's the right approach [to] apologise and on the basis of that the independent advisor said no need for a