Corbyn rips into BBC over biased coverage
UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has blasted the BBC for being “obsessed” with efforts to damage his leadership and accused some party members of playing into its hands.
Britain’s opposition leader made the comments in an interview with Vice News as part of a documentary about the workings of his office.
The film, which was aired on Wednesday, follows Corbyn over almost two months during the run-up to the May elections and features a series of interviews with Ben Ferguson, a Vice journalist and Labour member who voted for Corbyn.
In response to Ferguson expressing concern about Labour’s performance in May, Corbyn revealed the depth of his feelings about his portrayal in the media, launching a fierce attack against the BBC in particular.
“There is not one story on any election anywhere in the UK that the BBC will not spin into a problem for me. It is obsessive beyond belief. They are obsessed with trying to damage the leadership of the Labour party and unfortunately there are people in the Labour party that play into that,” he said.
Corbyn said one of the main lessons of being the leader is “how shallow, facile and ill-informed many of the supposed well-informed major commentators are in our media,” accusing them of shaping a debate that was “baseless and narrow.”
The Labour leader is filmed calling “utterly disgusting” a Guardian column that had accused him and his party of having an anti-Semitism problem.
The anti-Semitism row within the Labour Party became the center of media attention last month after the party suspended a number of its key figures for condemning Israeli crimes.
The latest uproar against Labour flared up when the former mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, was suspended by Corbyn over denouncing Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people and arguing that Adolf Hitler, the former leader of Nazi Germany, was a supporter of Zionism.
As the controversy deepened, David Abrahams, a major party donor, called for Corbyn to resign, saying “Labour needs strong leadership.”
However, Corbyn said in a statement that he would propose a new code of conduct banning any forms of racism in his party.
“There is no place for anti-Semitism or any form of racism in the Labour Party, or anywhere in society,” he said.
Iran dismisses UK, Australia’s ‘baseless’ claims, urges end to interventions in West Asia
US, UK mull removing HTS militants in Syria from terror list
British occupation of Ireland must end
VIDEO | S Korean legal battles rage as presidential impeachment trial begins
VIDEO | Over 80% of mosques in Gaza destroyed by Israeli regime
VIDEO | Jordanians take to streets of Amman to support Resistance
VIDEO | Protests erupt in Pakistan over Parachinar crisis
US and UK launch new airstrikes on Yemeni capital
Homelessness up 18 percent in US in last year
VIDEO | Yemenis hold nationwide rallies in support of Palestine
Israeli aggression against Gaza hospitals ‘flagrant violation’
PressTV NEWSLETTER
now
This makes it easy to access the Press TV website
