there has been, you know, - an enormous problem of cosiness and perhaps undeclared interests of people - writing about this story that i do . think has a really corrosive effect i on people's trust i injournalism now. you know, you can't be a whitehall- or lobby correspondent - without having really brilliant soui’ces, and sometimes those source relationships do tip - over into friendships, but i think probably something we could learn from americanl journalism — and it pains me to say this as a brit — - is that we need to be . much more transparent about those relationships. joeyjones, you went through that revolving door. you were a deputy political editor at sky news before you went to work for theresa may in 2016. what is a politician buying when they offer a job of this kind? i think it depends on the individual politician. i mean, obviously if a politician is taking someone from the lobby, they would expect that individual to be very good at putting themselves in the shoes of a journalist and anticipating the way in which a story may develop where it might head. they understand the personalities at play because they've worked alongside those, those journalists as well.