Complaint
A viewer complained that a guest on the programme gave a “false, misleading and biased” account of the EHRC report on Labour and antisemitism, which the presenter should have challenged. The ECU considered the complaint in the light of the BBC’s editorial standards of accuracy.
Outcome
Although the guest’s account of the EHRC’s findings was certainly open to argument, it was not material to the main point at issue, which was Jeremy Corbyn’s response to the report, and in the ECU’s view it was not necessary for the presenter to challenge the guest on what was essentially a matter of interpretation rather than factual accuracy.
Not upheld