But it is also true that her work is not that different from that of her predecessor, Nick Robinson, who was actually a Conservative during his time at Cambridge University. Robinson, despite being much more candid about his past biases than Kuenssberg, has never received the same level of intensely personalised vitriol as she has. There is something more going on here than just politics.

This is a kind of insidious sexism that cuts across the political spectrum. It's extremely difficult to identify because it is so understated, and will have been experienced by every woman with an opinion. In her book, Men Explain Things to Me, the writer Rebecca Solnit describes it like this: “Most women fight wars on two fronts, one for whatever the putative topic is and one simply for the right to speak, to have ideas, to be acknowledged to be in possession of facts and truths, to have value, to be a human being.”

In other words, men are not only angry with women for having the ‘wrong’ opinions, but for daring to speak at all. This sexist anger is the driving force that transforms legitimate political grievances into ferocious personal vendettas.

This is a kind of insidious sexism that cuts across the political spectrum. It's extremely difficult to identify because it is so understated, and will have been experienced by every woman with an opinion. In her book Men Explain Things to Me, the writer Rebecca Solnit describes it like this: “Most women fight wars on two fronts, one for whatever the putative topic is and one simply for the right to speak, to have ideas, to be acknowledged to be in possession of facts and truths, to have value, to be a human being.”

In other words, men are not angry with women for having the wrong opinions, but for daring to speak at all. This sexist anger is the driving force that transforms legitimate political grievances into ferocious personal vendettas.

“Whatever our politics, we should all be angry that Laura Kuenssberg needs a bodyguard”