BBC must get its house in order, Starmer to tell Trump
Sir Keir Starmer is expected to tell Donald Trump that the BBC should “get its own order” after the US president Pledges to move forward with lawsuit for up to $5bn (£3.8bn) against the publisher.
The Prime Minister will say he believes this in a phone call with Mr Trump this weekend. BBC It must support the highest possible standards, including rapid correction of errors.
On Friday night, Mr. Trump said he was still inactive. plans to sue the companydespite the broadcaster apologizing for cheating in one of his speeches.
The president speaking on Air Force One He told The Telegraph He said he would formally seek damages of “between $1 and $5 billion” against the BBC early next week.
She claimed Sir Keir was “so embarrassed” by the scandal that he tried to “call me” about it.
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It is understood Sir Keir will use this call to press the BBC on this issue. is a strong British institution and has a crucial role to play in the age of disinformation.
The Telegraph understands that from Mr Trump’s perspective the call will be a sense check to see what the BBC is doing reforming processes while the legal team plans its next move.
A senior White House official told The Telegraph that the phone call between the two world leaders would be friendly, saying: “It will always be friendly. That’s the way they are.”
The BBC was thrown into turmoil when The Telegraph declared: He changed a speech made by Mr Trump to make it appear that he was inciting insurrection at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Tim Davie, director general of the BBC, and Deborah Turness, director general of BBC News. he resigned last week It follows the response to the company’s worst crisis since the Jimmy Savile scandal.
company on thursday He apologized to the US president but he denied the defamation claim. Despite his apology, Mr. Trump said he could still take legal action.
“I guess I have to do this. They even admitted to cheating… They changed the words that came out of my mouth. As you can imagine, the people of the UK are very angry about what happened because it shows that the BBC is fake news.”
Praising The Telegraph’s reporting as “a great service… exposing fake news”, he said the broadcaster had acted “worse than CBS did on Kamala”.
The president was referring to CBS’ 60 Minutes broadcast last year, shortly before the election, which featured an interview with political rival Kamala Harris. To make your answer seem more coherent.
On Saturday night, former prime minister Rishi Sunak said the BBC had failed to represent British views as a whole, saying “the company cannot be taken over by any one part of the UK; it must belong to all of us.”
He wrote in The Sunday Times: “He is inadequate to the task” and called on the broadcaster to appoint an internal watchdog “responsible for spotting problems and addressing them before they become scandals”.
He added: “This is the BBC Validation the corporation really needs. It cannot sit back and wait for others to highlight its mistakes and then consider whether it should react before reassuring itself that any criticism must be motivated by underlying political motives.”
Downing Street sources said Sir Keir’s stance on the BBC had not changed since he was asked at Prime Minister’s Questions earlier this week.
In a separate interview with GB News on Friday night, Mr Trump claimed he had an “obligation” to stand up to the BBC, which he described as “corrupt” and “beyond fake”.
He said: “It was terrible. If you don’t do it, you can’t stop it from happening to other people again. I think you probably have an obligation. I’d like to know why they did it.”
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President attacked BBC’s “Stupid” claim that he “unintentionally” misled viewers about the content of his speech on January 6, 2021.
“They wrote me a nice letter like this: [they] apologize “But when you say it was unintentional, I guess you don’t apologize if it was unintentional,” he said. “But you know they took my words, so I made a nice statement and they turned it into a not nice statement.”
Lord Hall of Birkenhead, the BBC’s former director general, told the BBC not to pay Mr Trump a penny in an interview with the broadcaster’s political editor Laura Kuenssberg on Saturday afternoon.
But Sam Nunberg, a political adviser to Mr Trump’s 2016 campaign, said the BBC “needs to take this extremely seriously”.
He told Radio 4’s Today programme: “Remember, I am sure that the President, as a resident of the state of Florida where I am speaking to you, has been told that he cannot bring a case here in the United States because of the statute of limitations in England, he can bring the case here.
“I suspect that a defamation lawsuit filed because his speech on January 6th was included in clips showing that he was responsible for the violence of that day would survive his motion to dismiss.
“The BBC cannot have the case thrown out before it goes to the jury, and at this point here in the United States, and particularly in the state of Florida, I think a jury for the president of the United States would be quite positive.”
