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Nigel Farage has said he could not quote Donald Trump’s feelings on the BBC before the watershed following a phone call with him.
The Reform UK leader revealed he had a phone call with the US president on Friday in which Mr Trump said “is this how you treat your best ally?”
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BBC director general Tim Davie and the chief executive of BBC News, Deborah Turness, announced they had resigned on Sunday evening over questions about bias after a BBC Panorama special spliced Mr Trump’s 6 January 2021 speech so it appeared he had encouraged supporters to storm Capitol Hill.
Mr Farage told Sky News people should “put yourself in Trump’s shoes” as he questioned how they would feel if they were the person making sure the UK had security guarantees, and you had been “stitched up on the eve of a national election”
“What the BBC did was election interference,” Mr Farage said
“If you put yourself into Trump’s shoes, he made his feelings to me in no uncertain terms – in no unquotable terms.”
He later said he was not sure he could reveal what words Mr Trump used “before the watershed”, adding that he was “very, very unhappy”.
The Reform leader said the BBC has been “institutionally biased for decades”, just moments after Ms Turness arrived at the BBC’s central London headquarters and admitted “mistakes are made” but said there is “no institutional bias”.
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Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey has urged Mr Farage, Kemi Badenoch and Sir Keir Starmer to condemn Mr Trump’s attack on the BBC, calling it a “serious threat to our national interest”.
In an open letter to the three leaders, he said: “It should not be up to foreign powers to dictate where the British people get their news from.
“We must stand united to defend our democracy…
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