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From my letter to OfCom: "It seems impossible for any reporter on the Today programme to fully investigate widely reported stories that as Foreign Secretary Mr Johnson was seen as a “security risk” because of his attendance at Mr Lebedev’s parties... 1/
From my letter to OfCom: "It seems impossible for any reporter on the Today programme to fully investigate widely reported stories that as Foreign Secretary Mr Johnson was seen as a “security risk” because of his attendance at Mr Lebedev’s parties... 1/
"...if their editor was also a beneficiary of Mr Lebedev’s generosity. Amol Rajan as BBC Media Editor has reported on Mr Lebedev’s business affairs and he too has been a beneficiary of the oligarch’s generosity. None of this non-BBC work or benefits are for the public good."
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There has been no BBC response to this conflict of interest because there is, I fear, no response to make. In time OfCom and/or the Commons committees on Media and Foreign Affairs will ask questions. I look forward to it. But our PM is, it seems, under a Kremlin thumb. 3/
