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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Michael Howie

BBC bias row: Nick Robinson and Boris Johnson clash as corporation to apologise over Trump speech edit

At a glance

• BBC chairman Samir Shah expected to apologise for controversial edit of Donald Trump speech on day of Capitol riot on January 6, 2021

• Row erupts between BBC’s Nick Robinson and Boris Johnson, as the Today presenter hits out at ‘political campaign by people who want to destroy the organisation’

• Ex-PM Johnson describes his remarks as a ‘diversionary tactic’

The BBC is expected to apologise for the way a speech by US president Donald Trump was edited amid claims from a senior broadcasters of a campaign to “destroy” the corporation.

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