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Andrew Marr will become chief political commentator at The New Statesman after leaving the BBC at the end of the year, the magazine has announced.

A former editor of The Independent, Marr was the BBC’s political editor from 2000 to 2005, and has presented his own interview-based Sunday morning programme for the broadcaster since 2015.

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