For Sky News’s editor-at-large Adam Boulton it has been another day of all-out politics. Minutes before his thusly named daily show, All Out Politics, begins at 11am Jacob Rees-Mogg performs a breakneck U-turn over the parliamentary ethics row.
Hours later, the MP at its centre, Owen Paterson, resigns. On such days, Boulton says, his job is “action-painting”, splashing the news in broad-brush over his canvas, speedily filling in the background from his decades of experience and then over-painting as new facts emerge.
Back at his pied-à-terre in Covent Garden, however, it is now 6pm and Boulton is looking back not on today but his 33-year career at Sky News.
Britain’s doyen of rolling news, for 25 years the station’s political editor, its host for