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So, Patty, a doorstep is more than one thing, isn't it?

It's the thing that you go across when you're going on to your front door,

but it's something else in our business. Yes it's going with a

camera or a microphone to someone without agreement in advance and saying

when are you going to resign Laura? Oh not today. Well our colleague Faisal

Islam did two prodigious and important doorsteps this week one with the

Fujitsubos takahito tita, and number two with the Rwandan President

Paul Kagame, he tracked both down like a newshound in the Plutocratic Summit at Davos.

And it is a way of very effectively being able to ask people tricky questions

when they're not so keen on answering them.

Yes, it's absolutely sterling work from Faisal because there's two people at the top of the news pyramid and as they walked by them he whipped his

smartphone out and its great hack instincts and Michael Crick was Marvis at You, I remember you running all over the place, Laura, in Brexit and coalition talks.

Do you have any favorite doorsteps that you ever did?

Yeah, I have got lots sort of from the distant past, but one that really was so fabulous for me was that Leo Veradka, the Irish Prime Minister, was in front of me at Eurovision in Liverpool.

So I sort of doorstep

him but I asked him could I do an interview about Eurovision which is a

curious thing to ask the T-shop he was just sitting in front of me so he said

yes Larina's one twice now Johnny Logan did too and

Sweden has now matched us as having won seven times but look that'd be good days

for Ireland in the future as well but just want to really congratulate. I love Patty Howe even in that

subject he still managed to give you a politician's answer. There'll be good days for

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