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'Tonight's BBC News at Ten showed very brief footage of a protester being bundled out of Labour's conference after he'd interrupted Starmer's speech. It then showed a smirking Starmer deliver a put-down: "This guy has obviously got a pass from the 2019 conference.”

What the BBC cut out of its report was what the protester actually said.

When Starmer told delegates "Every child, every person, deserves to be respected for the contribution they make”, the protester called out: “Does that include the children of Gaza?”

Understandably, the BBC realised that Starmer's pre-scripted, jokey response to an expression of concern at Israel's killing and maiming of tens of thousands of Gaza's children – and his suggestion that only the Labour party of old cared about genocide – might damage his image with viewers. So they decided to cut it out.

Which is bad enough. It shouldn't be the job of the BBC to do Starmer's PR.

But worse, their political editor Chris Mason then had the temerity to conclude his report by stating that how Starmer's speech was received by delegates wasn't the main measure of its success: "It's what you make of it that really matters."

But how can the public make an informed assessment of who Starmer is, or what values he espouses, when the BBC is doctoring the coverage to make him appear more human and principled than he actually is?

The BBC isn't reporting the news, it's fashioning it."