Apparently Nick Gibb was asked a SPaG question on BBC World at One and got it wrong
The relevant bit of the interview went roughly like this:
Martha Kearney: Let me give you this sentence, “I went to the cinema after I’d eaten my dinner”. Is the word "after" there being used as a subordinating conjunction or as a preposition?
Nick Gibb: Well, it’s a proposition. “After” - it's...
MK: [Laughing]: I don’t think it is...
NG: “After” is a preposition, it can be used in some contexts as a, as a, word that coordinates a subclause, but this isn’t about me, Martha...
MK: No, I think, in this sentence it’s being used as a subordinating conjunction!
NG: Fine. This isn’t about me.
I think 'nickgibb' is a verb, as in 'He nickgibbed that interview, didn't he?'
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