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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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It’s time Auntie BBC took the gloves off

BBC Today programme presenter, Mishal Husain
BBC Today programme presenter, Mishal Husain. Photograph: Graeme Robertson/The Guardian

That Mishal Husain’s interview with James Cleverly should become “news” illustrates the kid‑glove treatment the BBC usually gives government ministers (‘Cool, calm, precise’: how Mishal Husain became the interviewer politicians dread, 6 January). That kind of questioning should be the norm, not the exception.
Chris Donnison
Sheffield

• Every decibel and pause is audible in Mishal Husain’s unpicking of unscrupulous characters. Such a joy in these times.
Jane Thompson
Hull

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