Kirsty Wark: Last News

Will Young has opened up about his experiences with gay shaming in a candid Newsnight interview.

Kirsty Wark, 65, recalled her tense encounter with Margaret Thatcher back in 1990, when she was assigned to interview the Prime Minister at the time in Scotland for Newsnight.The broadcaster said the pair got off to a shaky start, when Downing Street asked the BBC to take her "off the job" as Margaret "didn't like" being interviewed by women.The course of the interview went decidedly downhill from there, as the PM couldn't understand why Scotland would not vote for her.Kirsty revealed: "The Prime Minister was on a charm offensive in Scotland.The problem was, it had gone horribly wrong because she couldn't understand why people could embrace her policies, particularly buying a council house, but still not vote for her."Also, she didn't like

Alex Salmond is scheduled to be broadcast on the BBC next week. Presented by Kirsty Wark, one of Scotland’s top journalists, it includes interviews with some of the women at the centre of a trial that saw Salmond cleared.