Greedy PM faces down lockdown rebelsTwo lines stand out in reports of Boris Johnson’s speech to 155 Conservative MPs at a virtual meeting of the 1922 Committee last night. And neither had anything to do with Covid, the subject of his press conference an hour earlier, nor tomorrow’s vote on extending lockdown regulations until September. The first was an attack on the BBC. The prime minister told MPs: “There is a degree of instinctive metropolitan bias in the BBC newsroom ... Let’s hope they learn from what their viewers and listeners want.”SponsoredProvocative stuff, undoubtedly. Particularly in a month in which the BBC has announced a string of moves to the regions to pre-empt this sort of criticism from No 10, who have

Source: The Times March 24, 2021 09:08 UTC