Neil Cross talking about Spooks

[Tea Lady]

I agree, I have mixed feelings about Neil Cross. He wrote some of my favourite episodes such as 6.9 and 7.8. He also wrote 7.1 and 7.2 which I felt were two of the weaker episodes of series 7 (I'm not including the Harry and Malcolm moments in that statement) but I do hate that Russian submarine story! Neil Cross must have been responsible for the whole Yalta saga then which was just as preposterous as Nightingale.

Do we know for defo that Ben Richards is gone? I know this probably means didly squat, but he does describe himself as Lead Writer for Spooks when he did a talk in March 2010 -
http://www.pawsdrama.com/evening.htm