UK government to prosecute British veteran soldiers who served in Northern ireland

The interviewer's aggressive style kept the minister from getting an entire sentence out, before he was interrupted and talked over. It really would have been interesting to hear what, if anything, he actually had to say --

I know nothing about either, but if I were the minister I would have said “Either you shut the fuck up and let me answer, or I’ll leave and you can just continue to supply your own answers.”

That's happened before but the politicians who've done that have not been respected for it. Their job, on TV, is to take the beating and get a word in if he/she has one. Running doesn't go down well here.

Politicians' running doesn't go down well, but neither should interviewers' grandstanding rather than actually interviewing. The public benefits from hearing what the politicians have to say, when they are allowed to get a sentence out. This interviewer would have made his point much better if he'd asked the hard question and then sat back in silence, allowing the minister to hang himself through his own words.