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Cut and thrust?

Not for nothing is he known as the George Clooney of the news department.

‘I’ve heard that said. I’ve been called a lot worse in my time.’

Away from the studio, he keeps fit by running and boxing.

‘I box two or three times a week. It is a good way to get any frustrations out. But I’m never happier than when I’m buried in news.

‘I’m a daily news beast, attuned to the next breaking story, the next deadline.

‘The newsroom is where I come alive. I love the cut and thrust of it. I love the arguments. It would be very odd in a newsroom if we always agreed.

‘Within the team, the debates about what items to run and the order in which they should run often go right to the wire.

‘What happens is that I’ll have my say and the editor will have his say. Then, eventually, we’ll agree that I’m wrong because he’s the boss.’

- ‘I’m often asked what I do between bulletins, as if I just lounge around filing my nails’: Behind-the-scenes at the BBC with Sophie Raworth and Huw Edwards, DailyMail.co.uk, July 19, 2017.

3. Now I know Jeremy Corbyn is a bit of a wimp when it comes to the cut and thrust of politics but blaming him for Brexit is surely a step too far? But that’s just what the BBC has been doing all day.

The BBC, along with some renegade Labour Party members, spent much of its ‘news’ coverage asking why hasn’t Corbyn resigned? Interviewed as he left his home this morning, the BBC reporter shouted at him: