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# Jeremy Paxman grills Theresa May on child benefit cuts
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## In an interview on BBC's Newsnight, Theresa May, the Home Secretary, was
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pressed eleven times by presenter Jeremy Paxman as to when she first heard
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that the controversial child benefit cut policy was to be announced.
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![Theresa May was grilled on Newsnight by Jeremy Paxman over child benefit][1]
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Theresa May was grilled on Newsnight by Jeremy Paxman over child benefit
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Photo: ABBIE TRAYLER-SMITH
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By Martin Evans 7:00AM BST 06 Oct 2010
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But in echoes of the infamous 1997 Michael Howard interview, when he was
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repeatedly grilled on prisons policy, she persistently refused to give a
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direct answer.
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Instead, she said the decision was "a matter for the Chancellor and the
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Secretary of State for Work and Pensions" and added: "No, I didn't first hear
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about it on breakfast television yesterday".
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Paxman asked the question several times, and interrupted the Home Secretary
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when she was speaking, saying: "You haven't given me a date."
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She replied by joking: "Are you asking me for a date, Jeremy?", to laughter
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and applause from the audience at the Conservative conference - but still
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refused to tell him.
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06 Oct 2010
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11 questions from Jeremy Paxman to Theresa May
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1 - "When was this policy cooked up? When did you first learn about it?"
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2 - "When did you first hear about it?"
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3 - "When did you first hear about it?"
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4 - "So you first heard about it on breakfast tv?"
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5 - "When did you first hear about it?"
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6 - "You heard about it after it was announced on breakfast tv?"
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7 - "When did the scales fall from your eyes?"
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8 - "When did you learn you were going to do it?"
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9 - "I am asking you when you as a senior member of this government first knew
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that this policy was going to be announced?"
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10 - "When did you first hear that this was going to be announced?"
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11 - "Did you know in advance?"
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