Lee Anderson attacks BBC over Rishi Sunak’s fiery clash with Nick Robinson
Nick Robinson asks Rishi Sunak ‘Where was the proposal for a tax on meat?’
Lee Anderson branded the BBC the “official opposition” after Rishi Sunak’s fiery interview with Nick Robinson over weakening climate pledges.
The Prime Minister faced an intense grilling on Radio 4’s Today programme about his new net zero plan unveiled last night.
In one heated moment, Robinson accused Mr Sunak of “making a series of claims that aren’t true” in reference to his pledge to scrap measures including the possibility of taxes on meat and compulsory car sharing.
Tory deputy chairman Lee Anderson criticised the corporation over the interview.
The Ashfield MP told the Telegraph: “The BBC, as I’ve always said, are the official opposition in our country.
“They did this during Brexit, they’re always doing it, and it just proves once again how out-of-touch the BBC and large swathes of the mainstream media are with the Great British public.”
Mr Sunak defended his plan to weaken green measures as he clashed with the BBC presenter this morning.
Robinson challenged the PM over several policies he said he was axing, which critics have claimed never existed.
The BBC host said: “Hold on a second Prime Minister. You stand up with the authority of Prime Minister in this building and you say you’re scrapping a series of proposals. And when I ask you about them, you say that somebody considered it and it was in the appendix of this document.
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“There’s nothing to be scrapped which is why your former environment minister says you’re ‘pretending to halt frightening proposals that simply do not exist’.
Mr Sunak replied: “I reject that entirely. These are all things that have been raised by very credible people about ways to meet our net zero obligations.”
Robinson put it to the PM that he was “making a series of claims that aren’t true”.
Mr Sunak hit back: “No this is absolutely about doing what I believe to be in the long-term interests of our country.”
The BBC was contacted for comment.
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