How to interview, Andrew Neil style

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Andrew Neil, to the Levenson Enquiry (pdf):

My job is simply to interview whoever is provided, usually by establishing what they believe then taking the exact opposite position. Sometimes it’s indicated that we should avoid a certain topic or only go in a certain direction – the price of the politician coming on. Since I do only live programmes it is easy to ignore such strictures and there is never (or rarely) any come back.