Power dress? Not for me, says Kirsty

NEWSNIGHT presenter Kirsty Wark, who raised eyebrows when she appeared on screen in a pair of tracksuit bottoms a couple of years ago, declares that power dressing for ambitious women is over.

‘Gone are the days when you used to wear armani shoulders,’ says the 63-year-old Scot. ‘it was kind of a shield of armour, but i don’t have to do that any more.’

She explains: ‘it’s partly because life is no longer like that and also because i think women are more comfortable. On newsnight, what you’re trying to do is look modern.’

You can’t get more ‘modern’ than her fellow anchor, evan Davis, who eschews a tie, has a tattoo and is known as ‘tinsel t***’ because of his alleged nipple rings.