Many pundits predicted the arrangement would not last and two months later, Boycott left to replace Richard Addis as editor of the "Daily Express". Marr was sole editor again, but only for one week. Simon Kelner, who had worked on the paper when it was first launched, accepted the editorship and asked Marr to stay on as a political columnist. Kelner was not Marr's "cup of tea", Marr observed later, and he left the paper for the last time in May 1998.