Badenoch: A lot of BBC journalists are activists

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Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch says that the BBC coverage of the Middle East, U.S. politics, and of “basic issues” like sex and gender, shows it employs a lot of people “who are not journalists but are activists", adding that it needs "a root-and-branch review".    Report by Keechl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Well, if I was Prime Minister, the BBC would not have got away

00:03with putting out a documentary that had fake news in it,

00:06so we wouldn't be in this mess in the first place.

00:08The BBC needs root and branch reform.

00:11I'm glad that the head of news has resigned,

00:13but as we have seen with their coverage on the Middle East,

00:16it's not just the coverage with the US,

00:18you look at the coverage even on basic issues

00:20like biological fact on sex and gender,

00:22the BBC has been a mess.

00:24They have a lot of people there who are not journalists

00:26but are activists.

00:27They need to be put under control immediately.

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