Cabinet special advisor Frederick Ellery was scrambled from the sidelines to hide a woman laughing behind Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to prevent her from being seen by television cameras as he delivered his speech.
David Gilmour www.mediaite.com
The incident occurred during a broadcast on the campaign trail at Supacat, an armoured vehicle manufacturer in Devon, where Sunak was addressing workers.
Sunak nodding back to the pandemic and cost of living crisis, told those in attendance: “Look, it’s been difficult the last few years. You know that, I know that. I hope that you saw throughout all of that that I had your back.”
Behind him, a woman in the audience is seen laughing and contorted her face in disbelief.
Moments later Ellery appeared, looking at his phone, approached from the woman’s left and moved to obstruct her from the camera’s view.
Ellery, formerly an intern at the Policy Exchange think-tank, now works as a special advisor for the office of the deputy prime minister.
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