“BBC’s China editor resigns in protest over gender pay gap”

Jan 13, 2018 | Currencies

‘The issue about pay at the BBC is the difference between the stonking £400k a year for John Humphrys and the average producer, £25k, the huge difference between working people who really have to struggle, particularly in Central London and Manchester and the big, fat cats at the top’. Jeremy Corbyn’s outraged reaction to the BBC gender pay scandal? No, they’re the words of supposedly rightest-of-right wing Daily Mail columnist Peter Oborne. Are they, by any chance, related?

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