Straight answers
After Mark Durkan's confirmation on Inside Politics that he planned to step down as SDLP leader, some critics attacked him as naive, claiming he had made himself a "lame duck". The implication was that, even though he had already told colleagues of his plans, he should have palmed me off with a holding line.
Having been criticised by Gerry Adams for asking "stupid questions" and then been faced with spin bordering on disinformation at the time of Ian Paisley's departure, I have to say that I found it refreshing to get a straight answer to a straight question. Who knows, it might just catch on.
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