Former BBC boss Lord Hall should be stripped of his peerage over the Martin Bashir scandal, an MP has told Parliament’s ethics watchdog. But he continues to be effectively one of our nation’s lawmakers as a privileged member of the Lords.’This month the independent review by Lord Dyson heavily criticised Lord Hall for leading a ‘woefully ineffective’ internal probe in 1996 that cleared Bashir of wrongdoing. Lord Hall was the BBC’s director of news and current affairs from 1993 until 2001. When this newspaper first reported allegations about fake documents used by Bashir to obtain the interview in 1995, Lord Hall led the investigation which exonerated Bashir and described him as honest and honourable. Lord Hall went on to become BBC director-general for seven years until August 2020.

Source: Daily Mail May 29, 2021 23:33 UTC