Well! Emily Maitlis versus Rupert Lowe yesterday was quite the encounter. On the one side, a tweedy, grey-haired bloke of 67 representing Great Yarmouth (not the bit of Norfolk that London grandees frequent), on the other the incarnation of the Metropolitan Elite, formerly of the BBC, Emily M, looking marvellously bronzed.
In case you missed it, she accused him of obsessing about Pakistani grooming gangs “because probably you are racist and you don’t believe there are white perpetrators”. She asked him repeatedly, a la Cathy Newman, “Do you believe there are too many Muslims in this country?”
