Nick Robinson is forced to rein in Robert Peston over his boasts about his role in breaking the latest allegations in the News of the World voicemail hacking scandal.
Nick Robinson, the BBC’s political editor, and Robert Peston, its business editor, have an on-screen chemistry these days that rivals Bette Davis and Joan Crawford's in the film Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
Pesto appeared on the 10 0’Clock News, boasting that he had a big disclosure to make. “The latest extraordinary twist is that I’ve learnt – ,“ he began, before announcing that News International had passed on evidence to the police that Andy Coulson had allegedly authorised payments to police officers while he was editor of The News of the World.
Robinson subsequently took to the airwaves to point out that it was actually Vanity Fair which broke the story. Put on the back foot, Peston, whose inky black hair has been the subject of some comment, qualified how he had obtained his “scoop” on his website.
“I obtained this story in a circuitous route, when I heard that Vanity Fair was planning to publish a story on alleged payments to police. As it happens, Vanity Fair hadn’t published by the time I went live on the 10 O’Clock News.”
Robinson tells me that I must have a “vivid imagination” when I inquire if it pleased him to have got one over on Peston. Robinson may recall how he was put in his place by his rival, who is often said to covet his job, on the Today programme in February.
Nick Robinson, the BBC’s political editor, and Robert Peston, its business editor, have an on-screen chemistry these days that rivals Bette Davis and Joan Crawford's in the film Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
Pesto appeared on the 10 0’Clock News, boasting that he had a big disclosure to make. “The latest extraordinary twist is that I’ve learnt – ,“ he began, before announcing that News International had passed on evidence to the police that Andy Coulson had allegedly authorised payments to police officers while he was editor of The News of the World.
Robinson subsequently took to the airwaves to point out that it was actually Vanity Fair which broke the story. Put on the back foot, Peston, whose inky black hair has been the subject of some comment, qualified how he had obtained his “scoop” on his website.
“I obtained this story in a circuitous route, when I heard that Vanity Fair was planning to publish a story on alleged payments to police. As it happens, Vanity Fair hadn’t published by the time I went live on the 10 O’Clock News.”
Robinson tells me that I must have a “vivid imagination” when I inquire if it pleased him to have got one over on Peston. Robinson may recall how he was put in his place by his rival, who is often said to covet his job, on the Today programme in February.
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