UK election: The Newsnight whiteboard hits the road – BBC Newsnight

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Newsnight’s most famous piece of office furniture leaves the studio.
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Originally installed into the newsroom to document the number of sleeps until Christmas, it was thrust into the limelight when it was accidentally wheeled onto the programme one night.

BBC bosses sent the whiteboard on the road, to gauge what voters are thinking in some closely fought constituencies.

Here, it rattles into Newcastle-under-Lyme, where Labour beat the Tories by just 30 votes at the last election.

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