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Laura doesn’t have the right gravitas to host the General Election. I’m not sure I’ve even taken to her hosting on a Sunday morning. It needs to be someone statesman like, like your David Dimbleby type. Imagine that archive clip of the Brexit result with Laura instead of David.

She wouldn't be my first choice, but it does seem like she would be the BBC's. Kirsty Wark and Jo Coburn are the only other presenters who have led proper election coverage (and both would, in my view, be better), but Laura is sort of uncontestably the lead politics presenter in a way that they haven't had for at least a while (largely due to there now only being one 'senior' politics programme).

Other than really Jane Hill, I can't see any of the network presenters being particularly suited to the role. Clive would be able to keep the avuncular spirit of Dimbleby and Edwards, but Jane is the superior rolling news presenter and election nights are basically one long rolling news event. Of the News channel team, I do think Matthew Amroliwala would be quite a decent shout.