TV guest hilariously realizes live on air that she’s a victim of mistaken identity

The Independent

A TV guest panicked as she realised she had been the victim of mistaken identity live on air.  Scarlett Mccgwire, a former Labour adviser, appeared on a TalkTV segment with Ian Collins on Thursday (21 September) in which she was mistaken for Scarlett Maguire, a director at polling firm JL Partners.  As she was introduced as the wrong person, Mccgwire appeared to raise the alarm, before continuing the segment and giving her thoughts on whether class would be a factor in the next general election.  Writing on Twitter, Maguire said the mistake was "bound to happen at some point."

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00:00 with perceived inequality on the rise.

00:02 First Edition is asking whether this could turn out

00:04 to be the class election.

00:07 Joining me now is pollster for JL Partners, Scarlett McGuire,

00:10 and The HuffPost's political editor, Kevin Schofield.

00:14 Joining me now is pollster for JL Partners, Scarlett McGuire,

00:17 and The HuffPost's political editor, Kevin Schofield.

00:22 Scarlett, firstly, nice to have you with us.

00:25 I mean, this thing about class, I mean,

00:28 was that a surprise in any of this,

00:29 that class suddenly becomes an issue?

00:32 You don't normally see that as pivotal to a general election.

00:35 I think it's really changed that 10 years ago,

00:40 everybody was supposed to be middle class.

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