The BBC has been criticised for booking Arron Banks, the pro-Brexit billionaire who is the subject of a criminal investigation, to appear on the Andrew Marr show on Sunday. Arron Banks faces criminal inquiry over Brexit campaign Read moreThe BBC’s decision provoked widespread condemnation from politicians, lawyers and activists. The interview is an invitation to viewers to choose between what the independent regulator has said and what Arron Banks says. That is a false and dangerous equivalence.”The BBC spoke to Banks at Gatwick airport on Saturday morning as he returned to the UK from Bermuda. “The Electoral Commission have made a public statement without producing any evidence,” he said.

Source: The Guardian November 03, 2018 12:34 UTC