Camilla Tominey's unsisterly farewell to Kay Burley

Broadcaster Kay Burley retired from Sky News last night exactly 36 years after she helped launch the channel in 1989. But rather than sign her leaving card, rival presenter Camilla Tominey has launched an astonishingly unsisterly attack on her rival.

Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Tominey, who hosts GB News’ Sunday morning political programme, nodded cattily to Burley’s cosmetic work, described her style as “Lisa Nandy after six pints of lager and a packet of crisps”, referred to her patronisingly as “mother hen” and mocked Sky News’ “seemingly endless diet of biased Israel coverage and climate change scaremongering” as opposed, say, to GB News’ famously nonpartisan coverage.

Tominey also damned Burley as “TV’s answer to Liz Truss” – confusingly, not only as Burley lasted in her job 268 times longer than the hapless former PM, but because Tominey has been one of Truss’s most reliable media cheerleaders.

Burley must be perplexed at the attack from Tominey, who, in her GB News gig, frequently stares at the autocue like an Only Connect contestant confronted with the wall, and whose interviewing style rarely strays beyond asking Reform figures quite why they are so brilliant. As one wag on X put it: “This piece reads like Rylan Clark slagging off David Frost.”