This petition was submitted during the 2015–2017 Conservative government

Rejected petition Launch a Public Enquiry into bias within BBC news and current affairs reporting.

Given the disquiet of the public in relation to bias within the BBC from both left and right of the political spectrum there are real grounds for concern that BBC current affairs coverage has ceased to objectively report news and now serves only to reflect the narrow views of a metropolitan elite.

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Ref: The Daily telegraph 20 March 2017

'BBC risks undermining Brexit and damaging UK with 'pessimistic and skewed' coverage, 70 MPs warn'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/20/bbc-risks-undermining-brexit-damaging-uk-pessimistic-skewed/

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