[London Lite]

Thanks for clarifying. Not entirely sure how his accent is relevant to any of this. Clearly some stunt casting going on anyway, which has no place on the BBC, but that seems to be the way now.

Newsnight and most news programmes in general don't have MLE people speaking in roadman* speech usually. It could be argued that there should be more representation from that section of society in broadcasting.

*A young person who hangs around the street.