Kuenssberg 'embarrassed' by Johnson email error

BBC presenter Laura Kuenssberg's scheduled interrogation with Boris Johnson has been cancelled, aft she accidentally emailed the erstwhile premier curate her briefing notes.

Boris Johnson: The Laura Kuenssberg Interview was owed to beryllium broadcast connected Thursday evening connected BBC One.

However, the BBC's erstwhile governmental exertion said it was "not close for the interrogation to spell ahead" aft sending him an email which had been intended for her colleagues.

Kuenssberg described it arsenic "embarrassing and disappointing", but that "red faces aside, honesty is the champion policy".

The BBC said it had agreed with Johnson's squad that cancelling the interrogation was "the champion mode forward".

Johnson is presently taking portion successful media interviews to beforehand his caller memoir, which has besides been precocious serialised successful a newspaper.

Presenters usually enactment with a squad of researchers to hole a little up of a large interview.

The process usually includes gathering biographical worldly astir the subject, highlighting controversies, and coming up with suggested lines of questioning.

In a connection posted connected X precocious connected Wednesday, Kuenssberg explained: "While prepping to interrogation Boris Johnson tomorrow, by mistake I sent our briefing notes to him successful a connection meant for my team.

"That evidently means it’s not close for the interrogation to spell ahead."

She continued: "It’s precise frustrating, and there’s nary constituent pretending it’s thing different than embarrassing and disappointing, arsenic determination are plentifulness of important questions to beryllium asked.

"But reddish faces aside, honesty is the champion policy. See you connected Sunday," she added, referring to her regular Sunday greeting authorities programme which volition spell up arsenic normal.

In a statement, the BBC said: "Tomorrow’s interrogation with Boris Johnson won’t beryllium going ahead.

"As Laura has explained, interrogation briefing notes meant for colleagues were inadvertently shared with him. This makes an interrogation time untenable.

"Under the circumstances, some the BBC and Mr Johnson’s squad person agreed this is the champion mode forward."

Kuenssberg had said connected her programme astatine the play that her interrogation with Johnson would beryllium his "first connected his clip successful bureau since his dramatic departure from Downing Street".

The BBC has not yet confirmed what volition regenerate the half-hour programme successful Thursday evening's schedule.