BBC insiders have said Emily Maitlis was right when she said that Sir Robbie Gibb was an “active agent” of the Tory party who was influencing the broadcaster’s output.
Although she did not name Gibb in her speech, Maitlis said in an Edinburgh TV festival speech that Theresa May’s former communications chief, 58, was “acting as the arbiter of BBC impartiality” from his seat on the corporation’s board.
