UK election watchdog issues warning after BBC political editor's live comments about postal votes

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A video of Laura Kuenssberg's remarks, made during an interview on the BBC’s Politics Live programme, was widely shared on social media and appeared to provoke a response from the Electoral Commission.

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File photo. Laura Kuenssberg Image: Gareth Fuller/PA Images File photo. Laura Kuenssberg Image: Gareth Fuller/PA Images THE UK ELECTIONS watchdog has warned that it may be an offence to share information obtained at postal vote opening sessions after the BBC’s political editor said she had been told that ballot papers already in painted a “grim” picture for Labour.

It may be an offence to communicate any information obtained at postal vote opening sessions, including about votes cast, before a poll has closed. Anyone with information to suggest this has happened should report it immediately to the police.The BBC said in a statement that it did not believe Kuenssberg had broken electoral law in her comments.

“The parties – they’re not meant to look at it, but they do kind of get a hint – and on both sides people are telling me that the postal votes that are in are looking pretty grim for Labour in a lot of parts of the country.

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About time

➡️ I stopped reading her analysis articles ages ago. LauraKuenssberg

She should be punished to the full extent of the law.

State media supporting a sitting government, what a surprise. RTE BBC

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