As she joined hosts Minchin, 49, and Dan Walker, 40, via a live video feed from the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, many BBC Breakfast viewers noted that the Prime Minister was evading many of Minchin’s questions.
Although Minchin attempted to quiz Theresa May about what concrete proposals she had to tackle falling wages and rising inflation, and funding for those struggling with the one per cent pay cap, fans complained that the politician didn’t give a direct answer to her questions.
Fans of the BBC programme were left fuming, flooding to Twitter to criticise the interview with the Prime Minister.
One branded the segment a “lightweight interview”, while another blasted: “Minchin get off your high horse, you’re vastly overpaid for poor performing, this whole programme needs a total revamp.”
A third took swipe at Minchin and Walker’s capabilities, saying: “Time to switch channel mumsy Louise Minchin trying to be hard and Dan Walker trying to look menacing. F***in’ jokes.”
“Loving new BBC comedy show: ‘Interviewing Theresa May’ now on @BBCBreakfast,” another viewer quipped.
This disgruntled audience member barked: “@theresa_may interview on @BBCBreakfast is a bit of a waste of time as no question was actually answered. What’s the point?”
However, others praised Minchin for persevering with her line of questioning after she pressed May on a couple of her points, trying to get a straight answer about whether or not more funds would be found to help teachers and nurses.
“Can you tell me that nurses and teachers will get more money?” she reiterated, determinedly.
May, however, responded by explaining: “Well, the way that we do this is we ask an independent group of people, the Pay Review Body, to come up with their proposals for nurses’ pay, for teachers’ pay – we do the same for the police force, for prison officers, for the armed forces – and we wait to hear the results of what those independent sources are saying to us and then obviously government makes a decision.”
“Great question to May, Louise, ‘What did you learn about your leadership after election?’ Just a shame she couldn’t answer it” one viewer commented, while another added: “Even wooly sheep Minchin making #submarinemay squirm, not answered a single question.”
“Well done Louise for asking Maybot the Boris red lines question several times,” a third chipped in.
BBC Breakfast airs weekdays at 6am on BBC One.
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