Political

Michael Crick has set a hare running in his interview with The Independent today. The former Newsnight political editor says he was being edged out before he jumped ship to C4. So WHO did the suits want as replacement ? When will they reveal their hand ? Can they still afford the post, under DQF ?

Here's Crick's story: "Things got a bit difficult for me on Newsnight at the end. I was 19 years on Newsnight and 18 of them were extremely happy and then towards the end, about a year ago, they made it clear to me that they wanted me to stop being the political editor and do another job, which was ill-defined. They sort of said it would involve politics but they wanted to bring in somebody else as political editor and I wasn't very happy with that, to put it mildly."