Radio host Rima Ahmed says it’s easy to interview Liz Truss if you speak to locals

“Where’ve you been?” The Yorkshire-accented question by the BBC Radio Leeds breakfast show host Rima Ahmed to Liz Truss dominated national news and social media after a round of disastrous local radio interviews for the prime minister this week.

This unexpected exposure came in part because, like Truss, some people were taken by surprise that local radio presenters were capable of handing out such a grilling.

For Ahmed, it is easy to hold a politician to account when you spend every day…