Lord Hutton's Report

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 1:43 pm on 4 February 2004.

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Photo of David Winnick David Winnick Labour, Walsall North 1:43, 4 February 2004

Respecting the integrity of the BBC, is it not right that in the 1980s Lord Tebbit in particular baited and tried to undermine the BBC because he considered that its broadcasting of the bombing attack on Libya was wrong, and that on many occasions Bernard Ingham taunted the BBC because he disliked, on behalf of the Tory Government, what was being done? Let us not be hypocritical: the BBC has come under attack from successive Governments and not least from the previous one.