Quite frankly, this calls into question your competence, judgment and even your intelligence.
Anyone who has followed Mehdi's Head to Head for the past 10 years knows the script. Nothing is off limits. They do their research, and put you on the spot.
To admit you weren't expecting to be held to account for your past rhetorics (politics or not) is at best naive and at worst grossly unintelligent.
If it was politics as you claim it is, why didn't you accept that indeed you said those words? You didn't because in that moment you realised it would portray you as a man lacking in principles, values, integrity and a modicum of commitment to any ideological doctrine. It would have made you look (as it is now) like a man who is the perfect description of "anywhere belle face".
That interview was a demonstration of unpreparedness, and an embarrassment to the government you claim to represent.
If there is any reaction for that shambolic display, it should be hiding your face in shame. It's certainly not you coming to social media to obfuscate and pontificate.
Please spare us the BS!