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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Haroon Siddique

BBC should stand up for itself more, says Tony Blair

Tony Blair
Tony Blair told Sky’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday that the BBC was still ‘a great British institution’. Photograph: Liam McBurney/PA

Tony Blair has said the BBC should “stand up for itself more” as it faces questions over its handling of complaints about Huw Edwards.

The corporation faced a crisis last week after the Sun reported allegations that a then unnamed top newsreader paid a teenager for sexually explicit images. Despite police having said Edwards had no criminal case to answer, the BBC remains under scrutiny for its response to the allegations, which are the subject of an internal investigation.

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