The Labour Party was accused of 'making excuses for BBC bias' connected Friday nighttime aft a elder fig called for an extremity to 'wittering on' astir the Corporation's impartiality.
Sir Chris Bryant, tipped by immoderate to beryllium culture secretary successful a Labour government, made the remark astatine a 'Creative Industries' hustings past week.
He suggested that calls to basal retired the BBC's alleged Left-leaning bias were designed to harm its reputation.
Sir Chris who is lasting for re-election successful the Rhondda and Ogmore constituency, said: 'We'd beryllium perfectly insane arsenic a state if we fto the BBC die.
'It's 1 of the fewer things… that we are renowned for crossed the world.'
Sir Chris Bryant, tipped by immoderate to beryllium civilization caput successful a Labour government, made the remark astatine a 'Creative Industries' hustings past week
The Labour Party was accused of 'making excuses for BBC bias'
Labour's spokesperson for originative industries past added: 'Of course, there's got to beryllium reappraisal of the licence interest and the mode it operates… But the cardinal rule indispensable beryllium [to] halt messing astir with wittering connected astir impartiality and each of that benignant of stuff.'
Tory MP Alexander Stafford said past night: 'It's wide from Chris Bryant's remarks that a aboriginal Labour authorities would marque excuses for BBC bias – not marque definite that it doesn't autumn prey to the benignant of classical Leftie, metropolitan bias that we truthful often see.
'The BBC… should ne'er favour 1 governmental sentiment implicit another.'
Sir Chris rejected Mr Stafford's claims, saying: 'Of course, the impartiality of the BBC is captious to its integrity. That's wherefore I'm sick of ministers trying to interfere successful it.'
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