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Susanna Reid has said 77-year-old Elsie was “disappointed” with Boris Johnson following his response to her situation in an interview with Good Morning ...

He added: “The best answer is to help her abate the cost of energy as we are, but also… He said the UK government is “making sure that we take the steps now to invest in our energy supply” to “ensure that we have the supply for the medium and the long term”. “We have the particular payments to help elderly people in particular with the cost of heating.”

Good Morning Britain host Susanna Reid has reflected on her explosive interview with Prime Minister Boris Johnson which took place on the ITV breakfast show ...

Pensioner Elsie shopping for yellow-stickered food and riding buses during the day to save on heating.” She said: “I’ve spoken to Elsie since the interview this morning with the Prime Minister, and she says how disappointed she is with what he said. “We have the particular payments to help elderly people in particular with the cost of heating.”

Susanna Reid offers Boris Johnson alternative response to pensioner who rides bus to stay warm after car-crash GMB interview: 'Is she supposed to be grateful?'.

‘The answer is to say, “That sounds dreadful for Elsie. I’d like to find out more about it. We’ve got this fund over there that can help”. Boris Johnson dodges question about doomed pensioner to praise old bus pass schemehttps://metro.co.uk/video/boris-johnson-dodges-question-doomed-pensioner-praise-old-bus-pass-scheme-2676627/2676627 And you know, if she would let me, I would get in touch with Elsie as Prime Minister and find out exactly what that means. Boris Johnson dodges question about doomed pensioner to praise old bus pass scheme ‘Apart from “I was the person who was responsible for the bus pass”. I mean, as if she’s supposed to be grateful?’

As the TV presenter is praised for her no-holds-barred interview with Boris Johnson, here's everything to know about her life and background.

“It’s frustrating – I’m a professional interviewer whose job it is to get the absolute best out of people,” she told Good Housekeeping magazine. She spent half a decade working for the station before getting a job as a reporter on BBC News. Where I think the guest is perfectly able to stand up for themselves, I’ll let that be the case as well. The guests know who’s presenting the programme and so if I feel it’s necessary to say something, I do that. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. “I was on television as a child actress at the age of 13 and Adrian Dunbar from Line of Duty kidnapped me,” she recalled to The Guardian in 2016.

On Wednesday (May 3) the Prime Minister was on Good Morning Britain for an interview with Susanna Reid. This was the first time the PM had spoken to the ITV ...

"Why should he know who I am?" She then added; "That was just so funny. Look, it’s been almost five years since Boris Johnson has appeared on Good Morning Britain, and of course just over two of those years he’s been Prime Minister." But GMB viewers didn't let it go, heading to social media to discuss it and even suggested that the PM would 'lose votes' in the upcoming local elections. Susanna then replied: "I just want a straight answer – you’re an honest speaker?" As reported by Manchester Evening News, Susanna and former co-host Piers Morgan regularly accused the PM of snubbing the show, particularly during the coronavirus pandemic where the Government abstained from appearing on it for 201 days.

Good Morning Britain host Susanna Reid has called on Boris Johnson to help struggling 77-year-old viewer Eldie.

Many journalist like Susanna like to put politicians on the spot, if Boris Johnson said he would sort out Elsie's heating bills out what would the rest of us do form a queue outside number 10?" She goes to the supermarket at the end of the day to get discounted yellow sticker items; she gets up early in the morning to use her Freedom bus pass to stay on buses all day to avoid using energy at home." Focusing on the latter , Susanna used 77-year-old Elsie as a case study, after she had got in touch with Good Morning Britain to share her struggle.

The PM came under fire for how he dealt with a question on Good Morning Britain about Elsie, 77, who rides the bus all day as she can't afford heating.

I do not want to be in a country where someone like Elsie feels like she has to do that. “We have so often interviewed commentators, experts, viewers about the prime minister. Inexplicably, the prime minister attempted to make a virtue of her predicament by insisting – wrongly, as it turns out – that she could only do this because he had introduced the freedom pass for pensioners when he was mayor of London.

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And let’s see how we can help her’. That’s the answer." She said: “I’ve spoken to Elsie since the interview this morning with the prime minister, and she says how disappointed she is with what he said. We’ve got this fund over there that can help’. And you know, if she would let me, I would get in touch with Elsie as Prime Minister and find out exactly what that means. We’re making sure people have got jobs. Here’s everything you need to know about what happened in the GMB interview and who pensioner Elsie is.

SUSANNA REID discusses her explosive interview with Prime Minister Boris Johnson about the cost of living crisis in the UK.

Ms Reid revealed that she had now spoken directly to Elsie who said she was disappointed with what Mr Johnson had said this morning. “We’ve seen it coming for a long time. Susanna Reid sat down with journalist Andrew Marr to update him on Elsie, a UK pensioner who has to sit on buses all day to stay warm due to the cost of energy.

Reid, 51, interviewed Mr Johnson at 10 Downing Street, marking his first appearance on the ITV breakfast show since 2017 when he was foreign secretary.

"I think he knows who Lorraine Kelly is, he just didn't know what on earth was going on in that whole interview." It comes as Piers, 57, gave his verdict on the interview. Johnson fleetingly featured on the show in December 2019 when he walked away from cameras and appeared to hide in an industrial fridge in order to avoid engaging in an interview.

Susanna Reid's grilling of Boris Johnson on Good Morning Britain resulted in over a million people tuning in to watch the ITV programme, ...

Prime Minister, we have a lot to get through.’ The highly-publicised conversation – which saw the pair discuss the cost of living crisis and the war being waged by Russia in Ukraine – peaked with close to a 30% share of viewing. Susanna Reid’s grilling of Boris Johnson on Good Morning Britain resulted in over a million people tuning in to watch the ITV programme, it has been reported.