BBC boss Tim Davie slammed by Tories over corporation’s reporting of Hamas & small boats
THE boss of the BBC got a pummelling from ministers and Tory MPs last night over coverage of small boats and Hamas.
Director General Tim Davie tried to quell anger by hailing a new review into the BBC’s coverage of migration, but was heckled in a stormy closed-door meeting.
He was invited to address the Conservative’s powerful 1922 Committee, but the meeting quickly turned into an intense grilling.
Cabinet Minister Robert Jenrick told him he had “never been so disappointed” and the Jewish community were turning against the BBC.
His demand that the Beeb start using the word terrorists was rebuffed - prompting a heckle from Tory MP Jill Mortimer, who demanded to know if Davie “believed they are terrorists?”
Insisting it would be “inappropriate” to answer, Davie instead urged MPs to think about “young moderate Palestinians” hearing “generalisations”.
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Sources say at that point Mr Davie “lost the room”.
And Dover MP Natalie Elphicke blasted the corporations coverage of small boats and sympathy illegal immigrants.
Davie hit back that the BBC were reviewing their editorial processes on migration with the help of BBC board member Sir Robbie Gibb - a former spindoctor for ex-PM Theresa May.
BBC sources say it will be published "in full" before Christmas.
