John Bennett may be the only person in Britain who watched Liz Truss squirm and stutter her way through this week’s round of toe-curling radio interviews and breathed a sigh of relief.
Not because the dithering Prime Minister had managed to convince the Rangers chief that she and her new chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng aren’t, as we’re all beginning to fear, a ticking time bomb ready to sink the nation’s economy. But rather that her series of excruciating showdowns with a cast of local presenters from the BBC regions has mercifully knocked the Ibrox vice-chairman out of the running for the most ill-advised interview of the year.
If Bennett hoped to reassure the grumbling Light Blues’ legions that all was well when he sat down for the gentlest of grillings from the club’s in-house TV channel last week, he thought wrong. His two-part, 33-minute address only served to rile up a fanbase already frothing over the club’s recent performances on and off the pitch.
