Just a word about a veteran journalist who retired from his job today. Peter Murphy has been the voice of IRN at Westminster for more years than he probably cares to remember. I doubt whether there's a single person who reads this blog who hasn't heard one of his reports on an independent radio station. He's a journalist of the old school - one who believes in reporting what happened, rather than editorialising about what may or may not have been meant by it. Westminster will miss him and wish him a happy retirement.Peter will be on Sky News PMQs at 8.30pm with The Observer's Gaby Hinsliff. Any my colleague Shane Greer will be reviewing the papers on Sky tonight at 11.30pm.
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Seems that Peter Murphy and Gaby Hinsliff disagree with your assessment of today's PMQs.
But he'll be a loss to decent reporting of Parliament.
Who are the new quality Parliamentary Journalists?
Peter's ace: one of my heroes from my days as an ILR journalist. Rather a shame that politics (and indeed news!) has been so sidelined on commercial radio in recent years. We shall see his like again, but only on TV, or BBC radio.
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