Natalie Bennett LBC interview: After Green Party leader's shocker, these are the 9 worst car crash interviews in recent politics

From a 'Paxmanned' junior minister to David Cameron asking for the 'distracting' cameras to be turned off

David Cameron was made to squirm when he was grilled by the Gay Times on his MEPs' voting records

The Green Party's Natalie Bennett gave what has been dubbed the "worst political leader's interview ever" on LBC this morning.

So in order to put that claim in a bit of context, here are nine other interviews from recent political history that also didn't quite go according to plan:

Chloe smith on Newsnight

George Osborne was enjoying a good day as he scrapped a planned 3p rise in fuel duty in June, 2012. But then someone had the bright idea of putting Chloe Smith, a junior Treasury minister and then something of a rising star for the Tories, on Newsnight.

But she was unable to convincingly answer a single question posed to her by Jeremy Paxman, even the ultimate killer blow: “Do you ever think you’re incompetent?”

Nigel Farage on LBC

Nigel Farage’s image as a plain-speaking, not-like-that-lot-in-Westminster politician suffered one of a number of dents in May 2014, when a tense 22-minute confrontation with LBC’s James O’Brien had to be cut short by his spin doctor.

Patrick O’Flynn – who is now an MEP for Ukip – had to step in when Mr Farage was repeatedly questioned on his views on race and why he would be uncomfortable if a group of Romanian nationals moved in next door to him.

Boris Johnson on Andrew Marr

Eddie Mair, standing in for Mr Marr during his stroke recovery, might have been seen as something of a soft touch in March 2013 before he destroyed the London Mayor on the BBC’s flagship Sunday current affairs show.

Mair presented a series of anecdotes about the harsher side to the fluffy-seeming Mr Johnson’s rise to power and concluded: “You’re a nasty piece of work, aren’t you?” Boris didn’t quite seem to know how to respond.

Michael Howard on Newsnight

It’s become a bit of a cliché, but the interview Jeremy Paxman will most be remembered for is his roasting of Michael Howard on the question of a meeting with Derek Lewis, the head of Her Majesty’s Prison Service.

“Did you threaten to overrule him?” he asked. Then: “Did you threaten to overrule him?” And so on a total of 14 times. It left a memorable impression in 1997 – though later Paxman admitted he was just playing for time because the next segment wasn’t ready.

Nigel Farage with Nick Robinson

The Ukip leader was left chasing his tail outside Parliament in 2014 after Nick Robinson strong-armed him into logically admitting that a UK national could work as his secretary - a job that he currently employs his German-born wife to do.

Diane Abbott on This Week

In the run-up to the Labour leadership contest in 2010, Ms Abbott was left saying “no, no, no, no, no” in response to Andrew Neil’s persistent grilling on whether she thought West Indian mums loved their children more, as she appeared to have previously stated.

David Cameron on Gay Times

Grilled on his MEPs’ voting records on gay rights in the European Parliament, a pre-prime ministerial Mr Cameron suggested they could vote any way they liked. But he also said the right not to suffer discrimination based on sexuality was a fundamental human right – meaning it should not be subject to an open vote.

The former PR man got so flustered he had to ask for the cameras to be turned off because he was getting “distracted”.

Rachel Reeves on Daily Politics

The shadow Work and Pensions Secretary got very mixed up on whether Labour were promising “a freeze or a cap” – when energy prices actually stopped rising and fell. Refusing to accept that her party had enacted a u-turn on policy, she said: “It wasn’t us who changed – it’s the world that changed.” She later couldn’t give any examples of retail prices being successfully fixed by governments – stumping for “the minimum wage – the price of labour”.

Ed Miliband on Good Morning Britain

Labour’s leader faced some slightly inevitable accusations of being “out of touch with reality” from ITV’s Susannah Reid after she surprised him with a “how much does X cost question”. This time it was during an interview on how much he knew about his much-vaunted “cost of living crisis” – and Mr Miliband underestimated the average household grocery bill per week by about a third. He admitted he was wrong – but later tried to wriggle out of the situation by claiming he was only referring to “basic groceries” not his “overall shopping bill”.