BBC Breakfast's Naga Munchetty leaves MP 'rattled' over unanswered question

The Mirror reports Luke Pollard's BBC Breakfast interview on the MoD Bicester asylum site largely straight, and it attributes the status of the decision to the Home Office. In its own voice it says he 'refused' to answer, when his quoted words say he did not have the figures to hand. That is a minor loaded word in an otherwise straight report.

1. Uses a loaded word

   Minor

   “Mr Pollard refused to answer the question once more”

   Why this matters

   In its own voice the Mirror says Pollard 'refused' to answer.

   The impression it gives

   A reader believes the minister deliberately withheld an answer he had.

   The context

   His quoted replies say the cost depends on how long sites are used and that he did not have the figures to hand. The article's own quotes support 'did not answer', not a refusal.

   How we know

   • Elsewhere in the article“I don't have those figures in front of me here”
   • Elsewhere in the article“which I don't have the figures for”