Emily Maitlis’ ‘sneering’ attack on Nigel Farage has revealed true face of BBC

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Emily Maitlis’s “sneering” attack on Nigel Farage over him losing his bank account for political reasons has been lambasted by Conservative MPs who claim she represents “the true face of the BBC”.

The former Newsnight presenter left the BBC with her now co-host Jon Sopel for the News Agents podcast to be freed up to speak her mind on political issues.

But a number of Conservative MPs believe her “woke” opinions actually reveal the true level of bias at the BBC which she is now able to reveal publicly because she no longer works for them.

In her latest rant about Mr Farage being cancelled by his bank Coutts, Maitlis said: “I think the one thing we have learnt from all of this is how to whip up a populist storm.”

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She later added: “This isn’t a public utility, it is not electricity, it is a posh private bank – it’s in the name.

“The power of the populist is to turn utter entitlement into victimhood.”

Before she left the BBC, Maitlis was reprimanded and forced to miss a show on Newsnight when he monologue breached impartiality in 2020.

Then in 2021 she as reprimanded again for sharing an anti-Tory Tweet, breaching the Corporation’s guidelines.

But Conservative MPs have said that her latest rant shows that presenters and reporters at the corporation always had a bias which influenced their reporting.

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Stoke North MP Jonathan Gullis said: “It is very disappointing to see Emily Maitlis brush aside the serious breach of confidentiality by Dame Alison Rose, and instead show a sneering attitude towards Nigel Farage, all because of his party politics.

“You think she would have learned after her colleague Jon Sopel got egg on his face over this very issue.

“What we do see are high profile former BBC presenters displaying the biased attitude we all believe exists within the BBC still today, undermining its own integrity, and therefore making it ever more likely that, I hope, we will see the scrapping of the BBC licence fee.”

Dudley North MP Marco Longhi said: “People’s clear impression of several BBC broadcasters (past and present) is that they are not impartial. This came across loud and clear during the coverage of the Brexit Referendum.

“It’s their pretence of impartiality and the corporations’ defence of their stance that really upsets people because it takes them for fools – as if it isn’t all so obvious.

“Their subsequent sneering narratives after leaving the BBC serve only to confirm their political bent, and the woke ‘we agree with free speech as long as you agree with us’ is just as obvious as their politics is.”

Others though said that Maitlis’ sneering comments were no surprise.

Conservative deputy chairman Lee Anderson, who has been a target for Maitless and Sopel on their show, said: “We did not need her comments to lift the lid on her bias or the BBC’s.”

Brendan Clarke-Smith said: “Maitlis has shown the true face of the BBC but it is not a surprise at all.”

Maitlis’ co-host Jon Sopel has already had to apologise to Mr Farage after he made similar accusations in a Tweet following the BBC story claiming the former brexit Party leader had lost his account because he had fallen below Coutts’ wealth threshold.

Ms Maitlis’ attack came after NatWest chief executie Dame Alison Rose was forced to resign after admitting to leaking the information about Mr Farage’s account to BBC business editor Simon Jack.

Today Coutts chief executive Peter Flavel has also quit over the scandal following the 36-page dossier which proved Mr Farage lost his account for political reasons.

Mr Farage has tried and failed to get a new account with eight other banks which was not reflected in Ms Maitliss’ attack.

She said: “Because at the heart of this is the decision by one private bank to say no to one customer who they decided was costing them too much and wasn’t bringing them in enough money.

“They offered him another high street bank like 95 percent of the population use and that wasn’t good enough.

“Farage made it an argument about free speech, about liberty, about censorship when it wasn’t. Noone was shutting him down, no one was stopping him from banking, noone was calling him names.”

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