Marr back in hot seat after cancer operation
Andrew Marr has declared “it’s good to be back” after undergoing an operation to have a cancerous tumour removed from his kidney.
The BBC broadcaster returned to his Sunday politics programme, The Andrew Marr Show, to discuss threats of another general election in response to Prime Minister Theresa May’s weak position in the Commons.
“Another election, oh joy, it’s good to be back,” the 58-yearold said.
Marr temporarily stepped down from presenting duties earlier this month, with his agent stating he was expected to make a “full recovery”.
The Andrew Marr Show had been fronted by stand-in hosts Nick Robinson and Emma Barnett respectively over the last two weeks.
The surgery came five years after Marr, the BBC’S former political editor, had a stroke.
He spent two months in hospital and underwent extensive physiotherapy to help him recover his ability to walk.
Three months after his stroke, the broadcaster gave an interview to his own programme, in which he described how he felt “lucky to be alive.”