Labour warned that Ms Truss’s comment, which could be seen to risk straining tensions with France, showed a “terrible and worrying lack of judgment”.
The journalist, who left the BBC earlier this year, said the media was often guilty of ‘normalising’ populist views in the name of balance.
"The whole thing is quite simply an organised rip-off, it's a crime being perpetrated upon all bill holders, that should fill all of us with an almighty righteous anger and fury."
Labour has moved to centralise donations as membership plummets and tensions grow with unions over strike action.
"It is normal for government spin doctors to vocalise their displeasure to journalists, what is not normal is the speed with which the BBC sought to pacify the complainant."
"Verging on sinister now, he knows his audience I suppose," said one person after watching the clip of Rishi Sunak.
“It’s completely unacceptable to see the same river being devastated by the same water company in the same location twice in 20 years."
Lord Heseltine said that Margaret Thatcher squandered billions from North Sea oil on a short-term consumer boom when she should have invested it.
"Johnson looks like he’s visiting his student daughter at Uni and all her mates are making the most of him paying the bill," said one person afrer seeing the pic.