Kate Hoey hits out at BBC and its Brexit coverage

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Former Labour MP Kate Hoey vented her frustration at the BBC for its allegedly partial coverage of the Boris Johnson’s partygate saga, saying that they are exploiting his party scandals to “get rid” of him. She suggested that Michael Heseltine, a vocal anti-Brexit campaigner, has been recently brought back by the broadcaster to comment on the ongoing row, resulting in him casting doubts on the Brexit results. Speaking to Mike Graham on TalkRADIO she also warned people to be careful what they wish for as Mr Johnson made Britain “really successful” and it would be no mean feat to fill his potential void.

Baroness Hoey admitted that Mr Johnson may not be flawless but his ability to win over people who had “never” entertained the thought of voting Conservative is a masterpiece.

She said: “People have used this [partygate] very much!

“They have jumped onto it and used it as a way of getting rid of the Prime Minister.

“I think he has his faults, I know his faults, everybody who works with him knows his faults but I think that we have to be very, very careful in trying to get rid of someone who is able to campaign and get a majority, a huge majority and to talk to people who never had voted Conservative before!”

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She then delivered a damning verdict of the “biased” BBC for their inclination to feed off Mr Johnson’s fiascos in a bid to force him out.

Baroness Hoey censured their opprobrium, saying: “Even as we have seen people like Michael Heseltine coming out and withering on about Boris going could reopen the whole EU deal.

“I do genuinely worry, he gets on every BBC programme that’s going because the BBC is loving this.

“The BBC is loving this. The BBC hated Brexit. The BBC is biased!”

Express.co.uk has contacted the BBC for comment.

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Baroness Hoey spoke about Mr Johnson’s chances of “survival”, insisting that she cannot see anyone in his league able to pick up where he would leave off.

She said: “So my view is, I don’t see anyone at the moment within the Conservative Party who I’d feel really confident that they would be able to carry on with trying to make this country really, really successful because of having left the EU.”

Baroness Hoey then hit out at his detractors who like to scapegoat him but she is convinced that the Prime Minister will hang onto his job, at least for the time being.

She added: “It’s very easy just to all pile in on the Prime Minister as people are doing but I think he will survive.  He may not survive in the next election depending on what happens and what people on the ground think..”

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Sir Keir Starmer claimed Britain is punching below its weight in terms of how badly they are being “governed” by Mr Johnson who, he insisted, sees himself above the rules.

“I shouldn’t have to pledge to honour these principles but, sadly, I feel I do.

“It isn’t that the prime minister thinks the rules don’t apply. He absolutely knows that they do.

“His strategy is to devalue the rules so they don’t matter to anyone anymore. So that politics becomes contaminated. Cynicism and alienation replace confidence and trust. So that the taunt ‘politicians are just in it for themselves’ becomes accepted wisdom.

“It is a strategy to sow disillusion; to convince people that things can’t get better, Government can’t improve people’s lives, progress isn’t possible because politics doesn’t work.

“But I’m not going to play the prime minister’s game. I simply refuse to accept that Britain can’t be governed better than this.”

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