
The Attorney General is seeking an injunction against the BBC (Kirsty O’Connor/PA)
(Picture: PA Archive)The BBC wants to broadcast allegations that a source working for MI5 is a “dangerous extremist” who physically and emotionally abused two female partners, in a case that the government wanted to keep secret.
The broadcaster is fighting an injunction bid by the Attorney General Suella Braverman to stop the programme from airing. She claims it would be risk the source’s life and pose a risk to national security.