BBC Director General summoned for urgent talks with Minister over accused presenter

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🔴 The head of the BBC has been summoned for talks with the Culture Secretary amid concerns over how “serious and concerning” allegations against a presenter have been handled

And a No10 source has said the BBC would “want to act swiftly on these reports to bring clarity for all those involved”.“These allegations are deeply concerning. As a public service broadcaster in receipt of public funding, senior officials have stressed to the BBC that the allegations must be investigated urgently and sensitively, with the department kept informed,” a spokeswoman said.

The newspaper reported that the young person’s mother saw a picture of the presenter on her child’s phone in which he was “sitting on a sofa in his house in his underwear”.Government minister Victoria Atkins called on the BBC to act “very swiftly” to investigate the unnamed presenter. “These are very, very serious allegations and the BBC have said they have processes in place,” the financial secretary to the Treasury told“But as public attention and concern grows the BBC is going to have to act very swiftly to deal with these allegations and to set out what they are doing to investigate them,” she added.

 

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