Laura Kuenssberg

2022 - 3 - 31

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Who is replacing Laura Kuenssberg and where is she going? (goodtoknow)

Laura, who has interviewed politicians and reported on big events including Brexit and Boris Johnson's “Partygate” is expected to finish her time as Political ...

Laura Kuenssberg is going to replace Andrew Marr as the permanent host of the BBC’s Sunday morning political interview programme when the show has a re-launch in September with a new set, title, format, and title music. The presenter is preparing to step down as the BBC’s Political Editor after more than six years amid a new role in September. Before I move on, I’ve been trying to piece together some of the seismic events that have taken place – the Brexit referendum, the pandemic, Jeremy Corbyn’s stormy leadership of the Labour Party, three different prime ministers.

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'Boris Johnson doesn't respect truth': Nicola Sturgeon tells BBC's ... (The National)

The First Minister was speaking to the BBC's departing political editor Laura Kuenssberg for her final show before stepping back from the role. READ MORE: ...

"But, you know, I reflect back on dealing with them and they had a respect for the office. Sturgeon also said that social media had changed “the tone and the tenor of political discourse”. Kuenssberg penned a final article in the role and also presented a short documentary entitled “Everything Has Changed”. For the pieces, she spoke to “five politicians, all of whom were, in one way or another, central to the political battles that went on”.

Where is Laura Kuenssberg going? What Laura Kuenssberg is ... (The Plainsmen Post)

Kuenssberg will leave her role as the BBC political editor in April 2022. “I've been so lucky to do the best daily reporting job in the business, with the best ...

It’s been an honor and an amazing ride – more to come in 2022! The person set to replace Kuenssberg at the helm of the BBC’s political content is still to be formally announced, but the BBC said news of Kuenssberg’s replacement is “expected in the coming weeks”. “This won’t be the last article I write, but it will be the last one in my job as the BBC’s political editor.” With love + thanks to everyone at @BBCPolitics” Kuenssberg has been in her role as the BBC’s political editor since July 2015 and was the first woman to ever be appointed in the role. Kuenssberg will leave her role as the BBC political editor in April 2022.

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It's been an honour and an amazing ride - more to come in 2022! The BBC added in a statement about her new role that Kuenssberg’s last assignment as political editor will be to cover the UK’s local council elections. "This won't be the last article I write, but it will be the last one in my job as the BBC's political editor.” With love + thanks to all at @BBCPolitics” Kuenssberg will leave her role as the BBC political editor in April 2022. Laura Kuenssberg announced in December 2021 that she would be stepping down from her position as the BBC’s political editor.

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Laura Kuenssberg writes 'last' article as BBC's Political Editor, says ... (Janta Ka Reporter)

The country made a big constitutional decision that stunned the political establishment, but the effects of which are yet to be fully understood. Rule breakers ...

She concluded with scathing observations saying that ‘rule breakers have prospered, for now, and stability has gone out of fashion.’ But the constant trolling did not appear to adversely impact her reporting. And there’ll be more to come, from a different chair, in a few months’ time.”

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Laura Kuenssberg says Johnson, Farage and Corbyn have been ... (Daily Mail)

The journalist said figures such as UK PM Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and Jeremy Corbyn had proved popular because they defied convention.

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Where is Laura Kuensberg going? What is Laura Kuensberg doing ... (The Miracle Tech)

Laura Kuensberg announced in December 2021 that she would step down from her position as the BBC's political editor.

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'Signing off' Laura Kuenssberg reflects on 'seven dizzying years' as ... (Daily Express)

She turned to former Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage; Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon; former Health Secretary Matt Hancock; former Tory frontbencher ...

"It’s been incredible to occupy the chair during a time of such huge change and to try to make sense of it for our viewers, listeners and readers online. And drawing a harsh conclusion on Matt Hancock's political career, Ms Kuenssberg said: "In the end, of course, he suffered his own embarrassing exit." Mr Farage told Ms Kuenssberg that the Eurosceptic movement broke the "rules" of politics, describing it as an "insurgency".

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Laura Kuenssberg: The 'rule-breakers' of British politics have ... (Telegraph.co.uk)

Jeremy Corbyn, Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage have succeeded by defying convention, says BBC's outgoing political editor.

Mr Johnson is regarded as an unconventional politician and has been accused by opponents of breaking official rules during his time in office. And she wrote that those who had succeeded in politics during her stint as political editor had been people such as Jeremy Corbyn, Boris Johnson and Mr Farage, who had defied convention and broken the normal rules of politics. Laura Kuenssberg, the BBC's outgoing political editor, has said "rule-breakers have prospered" in politics over the last five years.

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Laura Kuenssberg emotional on last day as BBC's political editor (AOL UK)

She appeared to get tearful as chief political correspondent Adam Fleming said how much he had loved working with her on the Newscast podcast. Read more: Laura ...

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She appeared to get tearful as chief political correspondent Adam Fleming said how much he had loved working with her on the Newscast podcast. Read more: Laura ...

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We can congratulate Laura Kuenssberg for her seven years in a ... (New Statesman)

The job of the BBC political editor has been made all but undoable in the social media era. Kuenssberg has had to endure extraordinary abuse, personal and ...

These days, it is straight to social media to say “sources close to the Prime Minister say that the moon is made of green cheese”. There must, therefore, be an editorial aspect to the job: some degree of filtering and assessment of what to include and what to discard. The contested truth is that Laura Kuenssberg did the same. Despite the loud accusations that she was editorialising, Laura Kuenssberg’s problem was that she tried to return the job to its roots in reporting. Andrew Marr and Nick Robinson came to the job with political histories but laid them aside for the duration. If a reporter receives a text from the chief consigliere to the prime minister it is, in one obvious sense, “news”. Or if the prime minister himself gets in touch, it is surely news to report what he says. The first is that Cole writes, in frank terms, that he regarded the Labour split as a grave and historic error. As Kuenssberg herself said in her outgoing post, “technology has allowed toxicity to spread more easily into our debates”. The next BBC political editor, whoever it is, would be well advised to turn off the Twitter machine, or at least to use it more sparingly. It is worth trying to regain the sense of proportion that has lately been lost. It was, in fact, her Twitter game – not something that ever concerned John Cole – which raised the only real question mark about Kuenssberg’s time as political editor. It is now a minority opinion to venture that almost all of that is patronising rubbish, and that Laura Kuenssberg did a near-impossible job pretty well. So much has gone wrong it is tempting to conclude that she must have been a jinx – and there are plenty of critics who would agree.

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