CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Deadline reports:

Channel 4 has sidelined news anchor Krishnan Guru-Murthy for one week after he was caught on tape describing Tory MP Steve Baker as a “cunt” following an interview.

Guru-Murthy made the remark, which was not broadcast on television but was later picked up on a livestream, after an interview with Baker, during which he discussed Liz Truss’s government and the chaos that ensued earlier that evening at a crucial Commons vote on the future of fracking in UK.

At the vote, more than 40 Conservative MPs, including former PM Boris Johnson, decided not to back Liz Truss’s government, with members alleging some undecided Tory MPs were “physically manhandled” into the voting booths.

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if everyone who has ever used the word to describe a Conservative party MP gets a week off work, the country will grind to a halt https://t.co/C7kuriZCp4

— Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley (@lottelydia) October 20, 2022

Krishnan Guru-Murthy calling Steve Baker a cunt. The evening just gets better and better. pic.twitter.com/quxlZTPgfQ

— Andy (@alreadytaken74) October 19, 2022