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UK. Hi folks, how are you doing? welcome to Luke's English podcast this episode is all

about politicians avoiding questions and today we're going to look at the way politicians deal with tough and challenging

questions from TV and radio interviewers.

We'll listen to some examples of politicians avoiding questions in interviews

and examine some of the ways that they use language to get themselves out of their tight situations

while also promoting ideas through interviews.

I'm not sure what you think about politics.

I don't talk about it a lot on Luke's English podcast.

I did an episode a couple of years ago called Number 82 voting, elections and government in which I talk about

the political system and various bits of vocabulary related to politics, voting and elections. Now a lot of people find politics to be

quite boring and I used to think that too but more and more perhaps because I'm

finally growing up I think that politics is fascinating and really important.

I'm particularly keen on watching debates between politicians

and watching the way in which politicians cleverly deal with challenging questions in interviews.

It's fascinating to watch them very skillfully squirm their way out of tight situations or use

all manner of linguistic and rhetorical skills to persuade people live on television.

British journalists tend to interview politicians in a slightly aggressive manner or challenging manner.

Politicians are getting very, very good at avoiding questions.

And this is exactly what I'm particularly interested in studying in this episode of the podcast.

How do politicians avoid questions?

Let's have a listen and find out.

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