Complaints about BBC coverage can quickly become the story, drawing attention away from the actual issue
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Nigel Farage knows the BBC will not allow him to join its televised Sunak vs Starmer leaders’ debate later this month. But the he also knows that a battle with the BBC can be an effective political tactic.
“If the BBC want a fight with me on this, they can have one,” Farage has said.