Carol Vorderman quits BBC show saying she will ‘not be silenced’ by social media rules

Carol Vorderman, who has been critical of the UK government, said she was not prepared to lose her voice on social media. Photograph: Dave J Hogan/Getty Images

Carol Vorderman has quit her weekly BBC Radio Wales show, saying she will “not be silenced” by the corporation’s new social media guidelines.

Vorderman, who has hosted the Saturday morning show for five years, said BBC Wales management had decided she “must leave” after she continued to express forthright opinions, often about the government’s running of the country, on social media.