Andrew Marr: I’m free to speak my mind now I’ve left the BBC

'More austerity would devastate us': Voters wary of Labour in England's poorest seatAway from BBC constraints, Andrew Marr predicts Sir Keir Starmer will win a majority of more than 100 seats. LBC's election night presenter can now deliver his 'unvarnished and unfiltered' viewsis set to win a majority of at least 100 seats. He also thinks Sir Keir Starmer will regret not being more open with voters about the tough policy choices ahead.

“We don’t want to be too constrained and corseted by balancing every single phrase with a phrase implying the opposite,” Marr said. “I think all those type of things, people have got sick of. On my show I say what I think.” Despite Marr’s views, the BBC has broken significant stories during the election campaign, including reporting that figures close to the Prime Minister allegedly betting on the election date. And, in which the Reform leader appeared to suggest the West had provoked Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, led the election news agenda.

“There’s lots of people getting the news on the move. There is nothing like live radio for immediacy and you want an outfit that’s going to deliver unfiltered, unvarnished and very fast results and commentary on it,” said the broadcaster, who will be joined by Sopel and hisElection night gimmicks, like Jeremy Vine walking down his virtual “road to Downing Street”, can get in the way of telling viewers the actual news.

The Scot, 64, who presented the BBC’s Sunday morning politics show for 16 years, has known Starmer across his legal and political career. What is the putative next PM really like? Andrew Marr interviewed Sir Keir Starmer in 2020 on his BBC Sunday morning show. Sir Keir had won the Labour leadership during the pandemic

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