Emma Reynolds and Nick FerrariNick Ferrari repeatedly humiliated a minister this morning when she was unable to share the key details of the very announcement she was making.The economic secretary to the Treasury Emma Reynolds was speaking to the media to promote the government’s new £1bn infrastructure plans to repair bridges and tunnels.But she froze up on LBC and was unable to share many of the fundamental elements of the new 10-year strategy.It started to unravel about one minute into their 10-minute interview, when she mistakenly began talking about a new Dartmouth crossing instead Dartford.“Excuse me, I had a very early morning,” she said, laughing.But when Ferrari asked for further details, she said: “You’ll forgive me, I can’t recall the exact landing zone.”“So the crossing you’re talking about, you don’t know where it is?” Ferrari said.“It’s er... the Lower Thames crossing which has been in planning for many many years and it’s to enable people to not take the Dartford crossing, which is a huge problem,” she said.Ferrari cut in: “It’s almost as if you are reading from a piece of paper there, isn’t it? You don’t know where it takes off or where it lands, do you?”There was a pause, until the minister said: “You’ll forgive me Nick, this is part of a broader 10-year strategy that we
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