BBC Insiders Help Emily Maitlis’s ‘Board Political Meddling’ Claims – Deadline

 The battle traces between the BBC and its former star information presenter Emily Maitlis proceed to be drawn, with BBC insiders lending their help after she claimed a BBC board member had interfered in editorial issues as “an lively agent” of the Conservative occasion.

After Maitlis made the declare in her lecture on the Edinburgh TV Competition this week, referring to Robbie Gibb however with out naming him – within the context of the BBC making a swift apology and rebuking her after she made political feedback on air – The Instances experiences insiders on the Company sharing the identical issues about Gibb’s intrusion into editorial issues.

Earlier than taking his place on the board, Gibb – who was once the editor of the BBC’s dwell political programmes – was an aide of former prime minister Theresa Might. Now The Instances quotes Maitlis’s view on his interference as “extensively shared” by her former colleagues, who think about his political allegiance makes it inconceivable for him to be as neutral as his function requires.

Allies of Gibb have additionally spoken out – together with his former colleague Sean O’Grady penning this weekend in one other British newspaper, The Impartial, that Gibb was in a position to preserve his political views “in verify”.

One other BBC boss Charlotte Moore used her platform on the Edinburgh TV Competition to reject Maitlis’s claims, saying that every one protocols had been adopted in its remedy of the apology after the presenter spoke out.