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The BBC has released a statement on last night’s episode of Newsnight after comments made by presenter Emily Maitlis were thought to breach BBC impartiality rules. BBC bosses reprimanded her over a monologue in which she attacked the Government’s handling of Dominic Cummings’ lockdown trip to Durham.

Maitlis told viewers: “Dominic Cummings broke the rules – the country can see that and it’s shocked the government cannot.

“The longer ministers and the prime minister insist he worked within them, the more likely the angry response to the scandal is likely to be … He made those who struggled to keep to the rules feel like fools, and has allowed many more to assume they can flout them.”

Talking of Johnson’s “blind loyalty” in the face of plummeting poll ratings, she expressed bafflement: “The prime minister knows all this and has chosen to ignore it.’

Clips of the sequence went viral on social media, attracting millions of views.

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