[Will]

Derbyshire’s aggressive and combative style is fine for Newsnight, but it’s certainly not right for Sunday mornings on BBC One in my opinion. You can ask challenging questions and remain firm without doing so in the way that Derbyshire does. It’s actually more of a skill to be able to do that (like Susanna Reid, for example); anybody can get aggressive and confrontational. 

Really? I think Derbyshire strikes a pretty good balance of having the warmth to present a Sunday morning programme whilst being a formidable and thorough interviewer. She certainty comes across as more personable than Kuenssberg who, whilst good at her recent documentaries, seems the wrong fit for Sunday mornings.

I think Derbyshire is probably the best political interviewer the BBC have now with Andrew Neil and Maitlis both gone. She’d be a good fit for the General Election party leader interviews that Neil used to do.