LadBible. LadBible have a question in the briefing.

And the LadBible lad’s question has a distinctly fash undertone.

The sort of semi-serious counter to the “LadBible had a question at the briefing” is that they have a huge audience and its one that traditional broadcasters/publications don’t get to very easily.

However, the fact that Number 10’s Head of Digital is ex-LadBible …

…and the question felt entirely set up to give Priti Patel some red meat to throw to traditional Tory papers and broadcast outlets makes it more suspect.

Add to that what @krishgm and others have said about how Number 10 is choosing who gets access to the briefings and it’s even more unsettling.

(I’ll also say this as an aside: Certain commentators high-handedly tweeting to define what should or shouldn’t be part of “the discourse” should cop on.)

Lecturing everyone on what ‘we’ should or shouldn’t have arguments or discussions about is just another form of gatekeeping ironically.

…oh, and last thing, the whole ‘it’s snobbish to question why LadBible is there’ thing is quite rich from a whole media class that doesn’t miss a step in being snobbish the rest of the time.