> Jeremy Paxman interview politicians and we were more or less in chock that he actually pushed Yes, Paxman was good at pushing politicians. But he was not a

> Jeremy Paxman interview politicians and we were more or less in chock that he actually pushed Yes, Paxman was good at pushing politicians. But he was not a lobby pass holder either, AFAIK. So he had nothing to loose. Politicians with a grilling fetish came to see him on Newsnight knowing exactly what they would be facing. But he equally represented a generation of political journalists that seems to have been lost with the newer generation. The new generation of political journalists seems to have lost that "dog with a bone" sprit, even those who are free of the self-imposed restrictions of the lobby pass. The Johnson partygate, for example, came out of leaks rather than tough questioning of politicians. There are rumours around that some of the more high-profile lobby journalists were at said parties....