LONDON — When Prime Minister Boris Johnson delivered a fireside chat last week to mark Britain’s departure from the European Union, he did not ask the BBC to tape it, preferring to use an in-house video crew. The BBC, in turn, refused to air his remarks on that history-making evening. And it comes against a backdrop of deepening hostility between Mr. Johnson, a one-time journalist, and the British press corps, including journalists from newspapers that backed his Brexit campaign. The rancor has inevitably drawn comparisons to President Trump’s clashes with the White House news media. But Mr. Johnson has avoided Mr. Trump’s inflammatory language, and the primary target of his wrath, the BBC, is a revered institution that occupies a place in Britain unlike the president’s favorite targets, CNN or MSNBC.

Source: New York Times February 05, 2020 18:45 UTC