My Any Other Business item this week on who’s in the frame to succeed Robert Peston as BBC business editor seems to have caused a bit of a stir. The strong rumour is that the appointment must go to a female candidate, and there’s clearly support for the delightful Laura Kuenssberg, who came to fame reporting the 2010 general election for the BBC but has been a lot less visible since she moved to ITV News as business editor in 2011. Does Pesto think she’s given him a run for his money these past couple of years? I suspect he’d say not, and if I were Laura’s career adviser I’d say play to your strength and get back to covering politics as soon as you can.
At to the internal candidates, chief economic correspondent Hugh Pym is an amiable Beeb veteran who suffers from the Ed Stourton problem of being a touch too posh: educated at Marlborough and Christ Church, Oxford, he also comes from a dynastic business background, his forebears having created the C&J Clark shoe empire.
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