BBC’s Daily Politics shows Newsnight how it’s done

If taking on Big Business proves a turning point in Miliband’s fortunes, only Andrew Neil’s show was on the money

Andrew Neil
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After Newsnight’s heavy-handed treatment of Ed Balls on Tuesday night, Polly Toynbee of The Guardian wasn’t the only one asking why the BBC was apparently following a right-wing populist press agenda in giving Labour a hard time over its relations with Big Business.

It was left to the excellent Daily Politics programme at lunchtime yesterday to remind us what good BBC practice is all about.

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Nigel Horne is Comment Editor of The Week.co.uk. He was formerly Editor of the website until September 2013. He previously held executive roles at The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Times.