Thread by @carolecadwalla

Nice try, Tony, but that's bollocks

https://twitter.com/JolyonMaugham/status/1080327706024112128

And @MattGarrahan, Tony Hall has now put @ft into an embarrassing position because you accepted his word and repeated it as fact which it's not so you'll need to add a clarification to this.

This is why it matters, Tony Hall. @afneil's casual misogyny opened a door for others. It gave them permission to abuse me & other women and a language to do it in. The BBC by failing to act implicitly endorsed it. And now, with this erroneous statement you've compounded it again

...And on & on & on & on it goes.

Thank you, @ft. Director General of the BBC was wrong. This was disinformation. Andrew Neil did not apologise. And the @ft has corrected the record. Bravo. A class act, as ever.

Meanwhile, @bbcpress refused to point to where Andrew Neil 'apologised'. Refused to confirm or deny if Lord Hall was mistaken. Refused to point to where Neil expressed this 'regret'.Our public service broadcaster, which Lord Hall tells us, is leading the fight against 'fake news'