It’s still not clear to me why they needed to be passing through Westminster Hall in the first place.
Westminster is a big site; there must have been other routes?
Why were no other broadcasters seen on the livestream getting ‘access’ to other areas?
Was an exception made for H&P? If there was, why?
The lines they’ve taken are highly amusing. They make no sense whatsoever. They make it sound like they were just passing through the department store to get to the bogs on the first floor.
P&H: “Oh no we weren’t filing past. Oh no, no, no, no, no. We were passing through.”
The live stream clearly shows them walking past the coffin in the same direction as those who queued to pay their respects. Whether they were in the queue or not is semantics.
And if they weren’t there to file past does that mean they didn’t pay their respects?
And if they didn’t then what the fuck was the point of being in there?
Crucially for me is the question about why Martin Frizell was there if it was supposed to be an outside broadcast on the behalf of TM viewers? He’s the Editor of This Morning for god sake, not a cameraman. What was his purpose in being there? That has not been explained at all.
The whole thing is an utter shambles by This Morning, Martin Frizell, ITV, Phil, Holly and their respective agents. Saying that Holly now manages herself - having broken away from YMU the same agent as Philip and many others - so she only has herself to blame.