Of course, any complaints that Newsnight was displaying party political bias through that Walsall voter panel will be ignored by the BBC. And we know that because Evan Davis has told us so himself.
As you'll probably already know, The Daily Mail reported Evan's remarks at the Hay Festival where he said that the BBC is constantly getting accusations of party political bias but that "no one at the BBC takes those kinds of things into account" and it's "very rare" for BBC types to even talk about it.
All the time we get those emails. And honestly, no one at the BBC takes those kinds of things into account. Maybe people at the very top of the BBC do, I don't know. Maybe they do. But none of the people who are making programmes do.
He's presumably including the person who makes his programme in that sweeping statement - namely Newsnight editor Ian Katz.
So I think it's safe to assume that Ian Katz wouldn't be 'bovvered' in the slightest by any fuss over dodgy voter panels on Newsnight because, if Evan's to be believed, such things are of no account to him.
So I think it's safe to assume that Ian Katz wouldn't be 'bovvered' in the slightest by any fuss over dodgy voter panels on Newsnight because, if Evan's to be believed, such things are of no account to him.