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The Guardian - UK
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Laura Snapes

What do you think of the MPs’ inquiry into UK Eurovision song contest failure? I give it nul points

The UK's Eurovision 2026 entry, Look Mum No Computer, on stage in Vienna, Austria, 8 May 2026.
The UK's Eurovision 2026 entry, Look Mum No Computer, on stage in Vienna, Austria, 8 May 2026. Photograph: BBC/EBU/PA

Given that Britain’s politics are quite a sizeable reason that we do so badly in Eurovision: here’s something that will definitely, absolutely, categorically help us do better in the competition … interference from MPs.

Digital, culture, media and sport committee chair Caroline Dinenage has announced that MPs will scrutinise the UK’s reliable failure in the competition to see where we’re going wrong, with a hearing to be held over the coming months. The answers surely don’t take that long to work out.

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