in particular Robbie Gibb, who was not only Theresa May's director of communications, he also helped set up the right wing GB News TV channel (employer of Nigel Farage and many other RW politicians) in competition with the BBC. They had apparently been preventing a simple apology on the misleading editing of Trump's speech on Jan 6 (see https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/nov/10/slugs-can-be-why-bbc-apologising-trump-documentary-what-happens-next ), which probably did need an apology - though it seems no one complained about it at the time - and insisting BBC news has systemic bias (the claims about Gaza are mainly about what BBC Arabic broadcast, and let's be frank, none of them or us speak Arabic; and I've not seen any decent description of the LGBTQ+ bias them claim, beyond "the BBC is too nice to trans people" ).
With the concrete viewable example of the Trump editing, the anti-BBC forces (including Gibb) seem to have won this battle. Heads had to roll. The BBC always has to look to keeping its funding going - by the end of 2027 its charter, authorising the TV licence fee, has to be renewed, so it can't just say "we're independent, trust us". You'd have hoped that with a large Labour majority, the charter renewal would have been straightforward, but Labour has done little to defend the BBC so far.
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