Jeremy Corbyns first Labour conference as party leader coincided with Davis’s first anniversary as Newsnight host this week. How has the presenter’s post-Paxo ‘new broadcasting’ style bedded in?Almost precisely a year before Jeremy Corbyn began to introduce a new style of politics,Newsnight presenter Evan Davis had declared a similar assault on the conventions of political interviewing. Both men pursued their ambitions through identical tactics: a kinder way of speaking, a challenge to the conference that powerful men should wear ties, or an attempt at thoughtful discourse rather than ideological boxing. So,as Corbyn’s debut conference speech as Labour leader coincided with Davis’s first anniversary as a Newsnight presenter, it was intriguing to see the makeover projects in collision in the BBC2 current affairs series’ editions this week from the Labour gathering in Brighton. A direct encounter between the leaders of the two reform movements was delayed, or with Davis’s first major interviewee from the south coast being shadow chancellor John McDonnell on Monday night.
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Source: theguardian.com