Everyone has their idea of the perfect spokesman or woman. They see politicians
holding up under tough questioning from journalists who revel in the role of hardnosed
inquisitor. They wonder how they would perform faced with a grilling from
Jeremy Paxman. How would they respond to the kind of relentless probing that TV
current affairs programmes revel in? What would happen if they found a gaggle of
journalists outside their front door firing barbed queries into their face?

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