Kay Burley off air for 6 months

*If* the reports about her being off until the NY are true, then I doubt there'll be an official name change unless she's booted off completely. They may well revert to just calling it 'Breakfast' or 'the Breakfast show' though so that sort-of counts as a name change.

Beth and Inzamam should certainly think of resigning considering the particular roles that they hold (and the wider rule breakages committed by Inzamam), and Kay and Sam need to be moved away from roles in which they conduct interviews relating to the Corona restrictions.

I'm sure they will delighted to be presenting a programme called Kay Burley right now 😀

She is heading to another Lion's Den!

Be interesting whether she has to spend some days in quarantine on her return, or whether she qualifies for the 'fast track' proceedure reserved for the 'good and the great'

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https://onemileatatime.com/uk-exempt-business-travelers-quarantine/

As it's for leisure and not work then I assume no.

Well that was a poor choice of "out" there on Outside Source just now. Ros Atkins signed off by letting us hear a bit more of Joe Biden's speech as he introduced his health team, so we got this:



Pretty sure - at least I very much hope - we were about to get a more upbeat caveat from the President-Elect.

I know the news media relishes bad news but that takes the biscuit!

What's it called at the weekend now? I imagine that branding would have been due over Christmas anyway, but next week I imagine they'd have planned to stick with Kay Burley.

‘Sky News Breakfast’ using the same presentation and title cards as @Breakfast just dropping the @

I don't think Kay can have any complaints about the punishment from Sky- particularly when you consider how Sky have given her the benefit of the doubt in the past over various incidents.



I'd like to think that during a pandemic Van-Tam would have bigger priorities and better things to do than 'throwing shade' at journalists. Especially as he's shown himself as highly professional and provided no indication he'd do such a thing.

I'ld bet that any people without media status or lots of money would love the ability to wiggle the rules for a 10 person party for an important birthday/wedding/funeral too. I'ld also imagine a lot of those people would be told "no way" if they did ask any business to weasel lockdown rules.

I can at least say I know that's the case as my parents had a staycation booked months ago cancelled as they were going to share villa with one other household in our family, and the company basically said "yeah we're sorry but we're also not going to risk anything, here's your refund" - now magnify that many times over with people who were maybe hoping to do a wedding/funeral or any other milestone event and likely had their plans cancelled while someone making very nice money at Sky gets to be above the rules and have their fancy do.

Kay didn't just flout the current advisories once for a party. If you believe what the owner of the second restaurant apparently told Guido (and it's not exactly something a business owner wants to admit to right now) - then Kay was there for quite a long time to water the roses and had more than a "few" people enter and leave the place. If any one of those people had Covid, that's a bunch of households who now potentially have it. The fact she did it knowing she was (apparently) going on holiday just shortly after doesn't really make it better. What if she gets to Africa and it turns out someone she invited *did* have Covid and she caught it?

Also consider this - what happens the next time another politician or public figure breaks lockdown rules and Kay's the main presenter on during that story? If you use her to press the issue (which is one of Kay's strengths as a Journalist) - well now the subject can rightfully counter that she didn't follow the rules as well, and she can't ask if someone will resign without potentially someone pointing out she's still at Sky. Heck even outside Covid, it's a potential issue for interviews over corruption or rule breaking for the short term.

That's not just the politicians you dislike who can take advantage of that. Tories, SNP, Labour, Greens or even Lib Dems will all be poised to deflect from their own rule breaking with a reminder that they did it too.