Nicky Campbell jokes that 5 Live guest has ‘scared’ him

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Nicky Campbell is one of the BBC’s core presenters and has been part of 5 Live for 20 years. His famous status meant he was even called to appear on the BBC’s celebrity programme, ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ where he looked into how he was adopted shortly after birth. The Scot is a staple on both British TV and radio, although his work has been focused on covering 5 Live Breakfast with his co-presenter Rachel Burden in recent years.

In an article written just a week after the June 2016 EU referendum — when much of the UK was astonished that a majority of the public voted to leave the bloc — he explained that he and his colleagues had seen it coming.

He said: “Our station, more than any other, is in touch with our audience because listeners getting in touch with us is our lifeblood.

“We pride ourselves on reaching far beyond the confines of metropolitan England.

“The referendum’s result surprised no one here.”

He said that due to the BBC’s strict impartiality rules, Remainers and Leavers were supposed to have equal airtime.

However, the presenter noted: “This wasn’t always the easiest of tasks because before polling day most of the fire and fury came from the Brexiteers.

“They were the insurgents. They were storming the Bastille.”

He claimed that Remainers did start to pipe up — but only on June 24, when the results of the EU referendum had been announced.

However, the presenter claimed that his wife Christina Richie did not share his conviction prior to the announcement that the UK had voted to leave the EU.

Writing in the New Statesman, Mr Campbell claimed: “In the time that I’ve been presenting the Breakfast programme on 5 Live and ‘springing’ out of bed at 4am in a disbelieving stupor, only three pieces of news have made me step back into the boudoir and wake up my wife: ‘Michael Jackson is dead’; ‘They have killed Osama Bin Laden’; and ‘We are out’.

“Her reply to the last might betray BBC impartiality by one degree of separation but was it: a) ‘You are effing kidding’; or b) ‘Ya beauty. Get in!’; or c) ‘Don’t wake me up. You are so unbelievably selfish.

“‘And could you stop clattering about and making so much bloody noise?’”

He concluded: “Clue: it wasn’t c).”

The UK officially entered the transition period for easing out of the EU on Brexit Day: January 31, 2020.

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By January 1 this year, Britain had secured an eleventh-hour trade deal with the bloc and had completed the transition period.

Although the vote was almost five years ago, the narrow election result continues to divide the public to this day.

Fifty-two percent of the UK electorate voted to leave the EU, while 48 percent voted to remain.

Brexit is now a done deal, but it is still a cornerstone of the SNP’s campaign to make Scotland independent from the UK, as a majority of its electorate voted to stay in the bloc.

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Although Scotland voted to remain in the Union back in 2014, new polls indicate that Brexit — and the COVID-19 pandemic — may have triggered a new wave of independence supporters in the country.

Scotland’s largest pro-independence party, the SNP, is subsequently on track to win a landslide in the Holyrood election later this year.

Scotland’s First Minister and leader of the SNP Nicola Sturgeon has indicated that, if her party wins another majority, she will take that as a mandate for an advisory referendum on whether Scotland should seek independence.

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