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General Election 3 May – 7 June 2017 THE BBC and BREXIT BBC News Coverage of the 2017 General Election 3 May – 7 June 2017 Contents SUMMARY ................................................................................................................................................. 3 PART ONE: MONITORING STATISTICS ...................................................................................................... 3 SECTION ONE: OVERVIEW ......................................................................................................................... 4 1.1 BACKGROUND ..................................................................................................................................... 4 1.2 SURVEY OVERVIEW .............................................................................................................................. 5 1.3 EU/BREXIT COVERAGE ON THE TWO SURVEYED PROGRAMMES .............................................................. 5 1.4 COMPARISONS TO PREVIOUS ELECTIONS............................................................................................... 6 SECTION TWO: THE TODAY PROGRAMME ............................................................................................... 8 2.1 AIRTIME .............................................................................................................................................. 8 2.2 EU/BREXIT ITEMS................................................................................................................................. 9 2.3 SPEAKERS............................................................................................................................................ 9 2.4 POLITICAL SPEAKERS ON EU BY PARTY ................................................................................................. 11 2.5 WITHDRAWALISTS ............................................................................................................................. 12 SECTION THREE: NEWS AT TEN ............................................................................................................... 14 3.1 AIRTIME AND EU/BREXIT ITEMS .......................................................................................................... 14 3.2 SPEAKERS.......................................................................................................................................... 14 3.3 POLITICAL SPEAKERS ON EU BY PARTY ................................................................................................. 15 3.4 WITHDRAWALISTS ............................................................................................................................. 15 PART TWO: CONTENT ANALYSIS............................................................................................................. 17 POLITICIANS /POLITICAL PARTIES.............................................................................................................. 23 CONSERVATIVES ..................................................................................................................................... 24 LABOUR ................................................................................................................................................. 27 UKIP....................................................................................................................................................... 29 LIBERAL DEMOCRATS .............................................................................................................................. 32 GREEN PARTY ......................................................................................................................................... 34 SNP ........................................................................................................................................................ 34 SINN FEIN ............................................................................................................................................... 35 DUP ....................................................................................................................................................... 35 PLAID CYMRU ......................................................................................................................................... 35 CONCLUSION .......................................................................................................................................... 35 NORTHERN IRELAND ............................................................................................................................... 36 ITEMS: ................................................................................................................................................... 37 BUSINESS COVERAGE .............................................................................................................................. 45 NEWS AT TEN: ........................................................................................................................................ 46 BUSINESS NEWS POSITIVES TOWARDS BREXIT ON TODAY: ......................................................................... 55 NEGATIVE CORRESPONDENT COVERAGE................................................................................................... 59 CONCLUSION .......................................................................................................................................... 63 APPENDIX ONE: SUBSTANTIVE PRO AND ANTI BREXIT SPEAKERS ON TODAY ..................................... 66 APPENDIX TWO: TODAY RUNNING LOG ................................................................................................ 70 APPENDIX THREE: NEWS AT TEN RUNNING LOG ................................................................................. 135 2 SUMMARY The survey covers EU content in the campaign period (3 May to 7 June) of the 2017 General Election on BBC1’s News at Ten and BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. In the 74 hours of combined airtime, 10 hours and 59 minutes were devoted to EU affairs - 14.7% of the available space. There was a heavy imbalance in guest speakers. Of the 375 contributors, 189 (50%) were pro- EU or offered negative opinions about Brexit; 140 (37%) were anti-EU or offered a positive view about Brexit; and 46 (12%) were neutral. Thus, in an election where Brexit was a pivotal issue, across the two BBC flagship programmes there were a third more pro-EU/anti-Brexit speakers than those who supported leaving the EU. The differential on the Today programme was greater: two-thirds more contributors were opposed to Brexit than supported it. Across the two programmes, only 62 speakers (16.5%) had campaigned or voted ‘Leave’ in the 2016 referendum and only four figures from the business community who had supported Leave in the EU referendum appeared on Today, with just one on News at Ten. This bias applied across all areas of coverage, and was made worse by BBC correspondents and presenters. They one-sidedly emphasised the difficulties of Brexit; examples are detailed at pages 61-63. This was compounded by the BBC’s so-called Reality Check Team, which put further undue weight on the disadvantages of leaving the EU. For example, Chris Morris, the unit’s EU ‘expert’, posited as certain that halting immigration would have negative economic consequences, when this was disputed by many. Coverage of the political parties was clearly inspired by the negative editorial input, and Conservatives who appeared in relation to EU issues were toughly scrutinised. By contrast, the Labour party’s policy towards the EU was hardly examined at all. There were only two interviews with a serving shadow minister about Brexit, both with Angela Rayner, whose portfolio was actually education. Keir Starmer, the shadow Brexit minister, was not interviewed at all. This severe bias by omission is detailed in our other report ‘Leave and the Left, 2002-2017.’ It left ambiguous and almost unexplored the party’s approach to the key issue of the election. These headline criticisms of the coverage, supported by the detail of our 164 page report, show that the BBC’s coverage of the 2017 General Election was not impartial and was therefore in breach of its Charter. 3 PART ONE: MONITORING STATISTICS SECTION ONE: OVERVIEW 1.1 BACKGROUND On 23 June 2016, the UK voted to leave the European Union by a majority of 52% to 48%. Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron resigned on the following morning, and after a short leadership contest, Theresa May became his successor. Although Mrs May had campaigned for a Remain vote in the referendum, after her accession she committed to the withdrawal process, coining the phrase ‘Brexit means Brexit’1 and stating ‘No deal is better than a bad deal’, indicating that Britain would leave the EU along with the single market and customs union, falling back on WTO rules for trade, if an acceptable deal wasn’t reached. On 29 March 2017, the UK government delivered a letter to the President of the European Council, invoking Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, and setting in motion a two- year timetable for the Brexit negotiations. On 18 April 2017, Mrs May announced a snap election. Her intention was to secure an increased majority and a strengthened mandate for the Brexit negotiations. Mrs May said that ‘at this moment of enormous national significance there should be unity here in Westminster, but instead there is division. The country is coming together, but Westminster
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