THE BBC has “no solution” to the impartiality problem posed by the difference between English and Scottish politics, an in-depth report into the broadcaster has said.
The “thematic review” into the BBC’s economics coverage highlighted how the “centre line” of English politics, where the Tories won a landslide victory in the 2019 election, is to the right of the centre line in Scottish politics, where the party has not triumphed in a Westminster election since the 1950s.
It quoted a BBC insider as asking: “Aren’t [English broadcasters] immediately starting from a position that licence fee payers in Scotland might regard as not purely straight-down-the-middle impartial?”
