Dullness and a total disinterest in their media profile are desirable traits in the BBC’s next political editor
Not long after she took over as BBC political correspondent, Laura Kuenssberg suggested that what she was most excited about “was to allow the voices of people outside this weirdo Palace of Westminster to be heard. I thought the whole social media thing might be really positive.”
Six years on, as Kuennssberg appears to have come to the end of her tenure, she might have been careful what she wished for. The voices outside Westminster she has mostly been hearing are those toxic tones that have become the white noise of our fractured public life.
