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Culture Secretary tells BBC to urgently resolve crisis over Oxford Street report

Nadine Dorries expresses concerns about speed of process in letter to BBC Director General Tim Davie

January 7, 2022 22:25
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BRISTOL, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 15: Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries arrives for a regional cabinet meeting at the Rolls-Royce factory on October 15, 2021 in Bristol, England. (Photo by Steve Parsons-WPA Pool/Getty Images)
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Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has dramatically intervened in the row over the Oxford Street bus attack – telling BBC bosses to get a grip of the growing crisis over its reporting of the antisemitic assault.

In a letter to BBC Director General Tim Davie, Ms Dorries says the event was “not only distressing for those involved but also the wider Jewish community” and urges the BBC to “resolve the issue” as quickly as possible.

Although the Culture Secretary has no power to rule over the editorial decisions of the BBC she is said to be “deeply concerned” that broadcast bosses have allowed the row to “drag on for so long”.    She believes unless the corporation can resolve the dispute swiftly, broadcast regulator Ofcom should step in.

Her intervention comes ahead of a planned meeting this month between Mr Davie and the Board of Deputies, which commissioned its own analysis of what was said during the filmed attack on November 29.   

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