Former BBC political bigwig Andrew Marr has said it is liberating not to have “18 layers of grey-faced managers sitting on my shoulders the whole time” since leaving for LBC earlier this year.
Marr, who used to present the flagship Sunday politics show, said last night that social media was making it “harder and harder” to report politics on the BBC. “Whatever you say gets analysed, ripped apart,” he said. “Poor Laura Kuenssberg has had an absolutely miserable time,” he went on, saying the former political editor was accused of being the “Prime Minister’s mouthpiece”. However, he added: “I will always be pro-BBC”. At a recording of the Political Party podcast. Marr said that keeping to impartiality rules was “incredibly frustrating and ageing”. He felt “10 years younger” since leaving.
