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Evan Davies is SO not Jeremy Paxman (thank God)

I have high hopes for him — the time is ripe for a new approach to the political interview

4 October 2014

9:00 AM

4 October 2014

9:00 AM

It’s unusual for somebody promoting his own television programme to tell you not to watch it, but that’s what Evan Davis has been doing. At least, he has asked us not to watch Newsnight during his first week as its chief presenter — the week that is now drawing to its close — because it probably wouldn’t be any good until he’d had a bit more experience.

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