"With the referendum now behind us, they can have their cake and eat it", wrote Alastair Campbell in a February 2017 article about Dacre, by "taking the mickey out of a woman who raised the famous 'bent banana' issue on "Question Time" as the reason for her LEAVE vote, the same reporter having been one of the journalists responsible for spreading the lie in the first place". In April 2017, after the 2017 general election had been called, the "Mail" in a front-page headline urged: "Crush the Saboteurs". May, in an interview on the BBC Radio 4 "Today" programme, did not endorse this attitude.