Paul Gambaccini hits out at Victoria Derbyshire during interview
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BBC News presenter Victoria Derbyshire has admitted that she was forced to delete a tweet for breaking BBC guidance on impartiality. The newsreader, 53, took to Twitter to confirm that she had removed the tweet as it didn’t meet the BBC’s standards.
It didn’t properly meet the BBC’s guidance on impartiality
Victoria Derbyshire
In view of her 163,300 followers, the host announced the reason behind her deleted post.
Victoria wrote: “Hi hve deleted a tweet abt crime figs/fraud/computer misuse etc because it didn’t properly meet the BBC’s guidance on impartiality.” (sic)
Express.co.uk has contacted a representative for the BBC for comment.
Earlier in the week, Victoria slammed an MP over crime statistics provided by Boris Johnson.
Watching her colleague Sophie Raworth’s interview with Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng, Victoria didn’t hold back as she blasted the Government for “insulting voters”.
The Business minister insisted Prime Minister Boris Johnson didn’t lie about the percentage of national crime figures that had been tackled by the Tories.
It comes after the official Twitter account for BBC Politics shared a clip from the interview, showing the “selective” response to the question regarding crime rates.
The tweet read: “Why did PM Boris Johnson tell Parliament that Government is cutting crime by 14 per cent when that’s not true?
“Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng: ‘All I know is that certainly on the doorstep people are saying that there is progress being made.'”
Clearly a little confused by Kwarteng’s reply, Victoria hit out: “Errrr crime is down if you take out certain crimes??!!
“Time to stop insulting voters’ intelligence?” she raged.
In the interview, the Business Secretary told Raworth he “didn’t know why” she said the statistics were “untrue”.
He said: “I don’t know what the evidence is for it not being true.
“All I know is that certainly on the doorstep, people are saying that there is progress being made.”
Raworth replied: “It isn’t true because he hadn’t included in that figure, and this is the Chair of the Statistics Authority who said that he had not included in that figure, fraud and computer misuse.
“The UK Chair of the Statistics Authority said that if fraud and computer misuse had counted in total crime, as they should be, total crime in fact increased NOT decreased by 14 per cent.”
She added: “It’s reasonable for people to expect the Prime Minister is accurate in what he says about an issue as important as crime in The Commons?”
After the MP told how the PM was referring to “personal injury and physical crimes”, he said Johnson’s context was right.
Raworth seemed confused as she pressed: “So what he said in The Commons, was that true?”
“Yeah, he was referring to personal injury and crime in relation to individuals…” the minister explained.
“But not in terms of total crime… what he said in The Commons this week was not true,” Raworth insisted.
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