This is certainly the worst crisis that the BBC has faced for at least nine years. Does the Secretary of State agree that if the editorial policy of the BBC is in need of review, then that review must be done by independent professional journalists and not by middle managers or by Government Ministers, and certainly not by Members of the House of Lords?
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Proceeding contribution from
Tom Harris
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 12 November 2012.
It occurred during Urgent question on BBC.
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2012-13
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