The BBC has some serious questions to answer as a new book reveals that a Senior BBC figure Sir Robbie Gibb told a news editor not to investigate the Vote Leave campaign’s claim that Brexit would mean £350m a week going to the NHS.
The red bus is one of the most famous images, of not just the campaign, but Brexit itself.
The number of memes changing the details on the side of the vehicle must run into 1000’s
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Now former BBC man Rob Burley, who has done most of the top editing jobs in political TV in Britain, has just published his memoir
Burley found the only person in Britain who does not think Vote Leave’s £350m bus claim was a lie.
Guess who? Yep, Sir Robbie Gibb, head of live political programmes at the BBC at the time of the referendum.
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Robbie Gibb told Burley that the infamous claim on the Vote Leave bus – “We send the EU £350m a week, let’s fund our NHS instead” – was “not a lie at all”.
Sir Robbie, who is on the BBC board, was keen to avoid accusations the BBC wouldn’t “accept” the result of the EU referendum, it is claimed.
“All that was done, [Gibb] told me. It was time to move on,” Burley wrote. “He thought that anything that looked back at the referendum would look to voters like an attempt to rerun it.”
Mr Burley added: “It risked giving the impression that the BBC couldn’t accept the outcome and wanted to discredit the result.”
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Alistair Campbell appeared, on the BBC, and slammed the corporation.
He said “You bring Brexiters on, you never challenge them. You let them talk utter rubbish about Brexit. And it’s happened on the BBC for year after year after year.” @campbellclaret shames Phillips and calls out the BBC’s bias over Brexit.
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