By John Glenday

Jeremy Paxman has fired a parting shot at the producers of Newsnight, days after leaving the BBC’s flagship current affairs programme, after deriding its producers as ’13-year-olds’.

Betraying a degree of friction behind the scenes the avuncular host, who spent 25 years at the helm of the show, denigrated his own producers as wet behind the ears idealists seeking to ‘change the world’.

On the last edition of the programme mayor of London Boris Johnson was filmed describing Paxman as the ‘last’ one-nation Tory at the BBC.

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Source: The Drum