25th November, 2011, 1:06 pm How not to appear on the Today Programme Mark Ferguson Share this article: Grant Shapps wastes the first three minutes of his Today programme interview arguing about whether or not he hadn’t turned up for a previous interview. Listen to the interview below: (H/T: Political Scrapbook) Tags: Today Programme / Grant Shapps / Mark Ferguson Mark Ferguson is the Labour MP for Gateshead Central and Whickham, and was the editor of LabourList from 2010 to 2015. View all articles by Mark Ferguson Subscribe to our daily email More from LabourList Comment ‘This Labour Government needs to fix the Tory student loan fiasco’ Whatever reason you joined the Labour Party, a belief in social mobility is likely to be part of… Tom Clements 13th March, 2026, 12:00 pm Comment ‘Dunblane’s legacy: how grief, courage and a community’s campaign helped ban handguns’ The Dunblane Tragedy is remembered by people across the country, and indeed the world, today. For those of… Chris Kane MP 13th March, 2026, 6:00 am Comment ‘While the right panics on Iran, Britain needs clean power, not chaos’ If you have tried to follow the position of Reform UK and the Conservative Party on Iran over… Katie White MP 13th March, 2026, 6:00 am
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