On Wednesday morning, Good Morning Britain’s Susanna Reid addressed her and Richard Madeley’s tense interview with Geroge Galloway after speaking with him on Tuesday’s show. The 53-year-old touched on the subject after an on-air discussion with Andrew Pierce and Kevin Maguire came to a close.
Before moving on, Andrew commented: “By the way, well done in your interviews you did with Galloway and [Kier] Starmer. I think you did very well, the pair of you.”
Touching on the interview with the former politician, which got rather heated, Susanna replied: “Two very significant interviews, George Galloway yesterday morning, who came out fighting!”
The ITV host touched on the first question she asked George on the programme, which was his reaction to the Prime Minister’s speech on the steps of Downing Street. However, George Galloway accused Susanna of putting him on trial.
She continued: “It sort of set the tone for the interview.” Interjecting, Richard addressed a discussion he had with George off-camera before speaking to him on air.
He said: “I very politely said to him when he joined us in the commercial break, ‘this story about you being a muslim, are you a practising muslim?’ Because there’s a lot about it on the internet.”
Richard told the panel that George had told him he’s never been a Muslim and is a practising Catholic.
The GMB star continued: “I thought, ‘Well, oh ok I won’t go there’. He raised it in the interview! He said, ‘Richard in the break accused me-’.
“I thought no I didn’t, I was being a journalist, checking my facts.”
Although Kevin Maguire stated he likes George Galloway and agreed with a lot of what he was saying, called the 69-year-old thin-skinned.
He said: “If he dishes it out, he should expect it to come back and answer the questions.”
During the interview with George on Tuesday’s show, Richard and Susanna questioned him on his stance on the Iraq war, which saw the politician getting removed from the Labour Party in 2003.
When Richard probed him on a meeting with Saddam Hussein many years ago, George was clearly disgruntled.
He reeled: “I have spoken about this decades ago. So the British people are in a crisis. Our country can’t even defend its own border.
“It can’t even keep control of the thousands of people who’ve arrived here illegally. The NHS is in total crisis.
“Our country’s falling apart around our ears. And you want to talk about something that happened 30 years ago?!”
Good Morning Britain continues weekdays on ITV from 6am.
