An interesting move given she was tipped for the top Beeb job, though it doesn’t rule it out – Nick Robinson was poached back from ITV.  

Looks like it will be ITVLauraK on Twitter…

UPDATE: Seems it came as shock to ITV’s Political Correspondent:

http://twitter.com/#!/chrisshipitv/status/83523097944268800

UPDATE II: Laura will start as the newly created Business Editor in September.