“Laura Kuenssberg replacement at BBC should be ‘pro-Brexit’, says senior Tory MP”

Oct 27, 2021 | In the news

This guy would, I suspect (hope?) be the first to complain about state control of the media in China or Putin’s Russia. Different, of course, if our own ‘state-run’ broadcaster (and a woman, to boot!) happens to disagree/ask difficult questions of the current ruling party. I’m sure he and others would prefer a Brexit-inspired return to the good old days, when, if one wasn’t happy, one could have a word in the shell-like of one of the chaps there. Let’s hope those days are gone, and this is a sign that, by pleasing no-one, the BBC is getting it right.

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