[Luc]

It’s a shame to lose Alexis’s show.

Compared to Vine, Alexis managed to keep things very neutral and I enjoyed the consumer sway of the show.

Really Storm’s show should be gone as it’s just “more of the same”… but I can imagine it’s that reason it has stayed. Probably cheaper to just carry on with the debates and not have to put any resource into anything consumer based.

I always guessed it would be a temporary situation anyway, as Alexis kept doing weekends on Times Radio - so was working 7 days a week a fair bit!

Alexis Conran's section did indeed just start off as another Jeremy Vine talking head show (with less of the right wing reactionaryness of Vine as you say) but they switched it up to give it a consumer advice theme around the time Steph's Packed Lunch ended on Channel 4. Presumably that was a failed attempt to take advantage of that and improve ratings.