Of brexit and failed to come to a conclusion. So that conclusion will now be for all of us to decide what we make of them. Well, with me now, a man who can expect to be almost as busy as the candidates, rick bailey, the bbc chief political adviser. Rick, thank you very much for coming into the newswatch studio. Youve been with us before but, of course, elections is really the time when you come into your own and the guidelines come into their own the bbcs fabled election guidelines. How much are they about preventing broadcasters from making mistakes . The guidelines are specific to each election and are thought about in the context of each election. And of course. You dontjust take them off the shelf and dust them down every four years . We think about each election. Or every two years at the moment . Exactly. We think about each election and we think about the context of that election and, of course, at the heart of them is often the Different Levels of coverage youre going to give to different parties. And at the heart of that is electoral support. So we look at past and current electoral support. Its also within the framework of ofcom. Ofcom publishes a digest which sets all of that out. But in the end, thats a framework for editors of each programme to make good judgments about what is fair, whats impartial, whats important for the audience, whats important in terms of scrutinising the politicians and the guidelines offer a framework for that. Now, you mentioned past electoral performance. Thats a difficult concept for a lot of people to judge what is fair by . An obvious example, in this election, we have a new Political Party that only came into existence earlier this year, the brexit party, yet associated with a party leader, who is very well known and has been known for many years. How do you judge whats fair in terms of both the brexit party and nigel farage . Of course, when youre in a general election, you will look back at what happened to the last general election, but you will also look at other elections. And of course, weve just had a uk wide election in very peculiar circumstances and as you say, there was a brand new party. So thats the sort of thing where its a new context. Youve got to take it into account. How can you be fair to the supporters, lets say, the brexit Party Without being unfair to the supporters of ukip . Because they might well say, well, hang on, quite a lot of the calculation youll make about coverage for the brexit party is actually based on the performance of ukip from local elections, previous parliamentary elections. Is it fair that, effectively, because the same person, the profile, has gone to this new party, that they should take some of that value with them . As i say, electoral support is measured in many different ways. You know, votes is clearly one, seats is another. But of course, when people move from one party to another, thats something you will take into account. And the brexit party and indeed, you know, a number of independents who have moved party or moved to become independents, shifted parties, all of those things are exactly what is the specific context of this election. And in terms of the independents you mentioned, lets take an example, the high profile example, Dominic Grieve was elected as a conservative mp at the last election in beaconsfield, is standing now as an independent conservative, he says he hopes to style himself as. How will the coverage he gets be different from, say, an other independent who happens to stand in that constituency or another constituency . And should it be any different . Because you could argue that much of his support, however popular he may be as an individual will be because of the party label he was wearing last time . Well, i dont want to get into individuals or constituencies because that in itself is something during the election campaign, when youre talking about constituencies, you have to be doing in a fair way and think about all the other candidates. So, clearly somebody who has already been elected, even if they change party, they have evidence of electoral support and thats part of. Is it their support or the partys . Thats the difficult. Well, it can be both. I dont think it has to be an either or, i think it will depend on the circumstances. Tom watson, the deputy leader of the labour party, has written already to the director general of the bbc, even as the campaign has barely begun urging broadcasters to call out what he calls fake news or as he calls it, the prime ministers fake news. Obviously, its a partisan point. Is this kind of standard for you before elections, you get these kind of pre emptive strikes by the party . I mean, as far as fake news goes, of course, its something thats very important to the bbc. And the director generals made very clear that we are taking on and weve got various things that were trying to do to combat that. But in the end, its the bbcs job to look at evidence, its to look at things and call them out if theyre wrong. But its not to get into the sort of name calling business of politics itself. Let me pick up on that point about calling things out when theyre wrong and think back to the european referendum, there was a number of things that came up that one example was the prospect of turkey joining the European Union. Penny mordaunt did an interview with you and with andrew marr, in which andrew marr challenged her on whether they mightjoin. And he said, i thought each country has a veto on accession. And she said no. And then went on to talk about why she believes the European Union would admit turkey. Now, that was factually inaccurate. The bbc subsequent News Coverage didnt really challenge it. And subsequently, people like norman smith, assistant political editor, who said, well, actually, ithink in reflection, we should have challenged it and called it out. Has the bbc learnt from that example and other examples from the Referendum Campaign . I think one of the things that youll have noticed that people hopefully will have noticed is the the increasing pre eminence of reality check. I think its something whereby when people say things in interviews or when people report things or talk about them in press conferences, we now have a particular way of saying, actually, lets check that, lets set it before. Now, you may not always be able to do that instantly. You know, itd be great if everybody knew or you as a presenter, knew everything all the time. But actually, sometimes that will take a bit of time and a bit of effort and a bit of digging. But i think it is important that we given that fake news and given that whether politicians are trusted or not is such an important element of elections, i think it is important that people know they can go somewhere in the bbc where we will have looked at the evidence and we are in a position to be able to call something out of its not true or point out if its misleading or indeed, sometimes they actually. Yes, that was the case. Youre looking forward to it. Its a very busy time. And lets put it this way. Will be looking forward to christmas as well. Rick bailey, chief political adviser, thanks very much. What would you like to see from the bbc election coverage over the course of the campaign . Here are some of the hopes and fears which youve been expressing so far. A twitter user called sarah asks for honesty, balance, interviewees being able to answer a question. Waffles being shut down. Fairness, smears being exposed for what they are. James would like as much Fact Checking as his possible cut through the politics speak. And chris rhodes wants no vox pops from idiots, please. Well, wed like to know more of your wishes for the bbc election reporting. And in particular, were looking for viewers interested injoining in a discussion on the programme soon. If that appeals to you, please get in touch. Stay tuned for our Contact Details a little later. Now, it was in the week following the last general election in june 2017 that the Grenfell Tower in west london was destroyed by fire. 72 people died in one of the worst disasters of modern times. And this week, the first phase of the inquiry into what went wrong was concluded. Special correspondent lucy manning with a powerful report shown on wednesdays news at ten. This man lost his daughter, her husband and their two children. Lena, six months old, died in her mothers arms. Why . This is our family. This is ourfamily. Ourfamily and herfamily. Apart from those understandably emotional scenes, the report and much the bbc coverage featured footage of the burning tower. Although there was a warning that some might find the images used upsetting, delivered by the presenter in the studio before lucys report began, several viewers still felt the use of the fire pictures was unwarranted. Heres jay goddard. The tower wrapped and remembered, is enough to illustrate the report and the comments from survivors and families are powerful enough. I can see nothing positive in putting the harrowing images again before viewers, and a warning that some viewers may be distressed is to underplay the trauma that such images can reignite. Well, although the inquirys report was published on wednesday, the bbc, along with the daily telegraph, had cited some of its findings a day earlier. As Reeta Chakrabarti made clear on tuesdays use it, six fewer people would have died in the Grenfell Tower fire had the london fire brigade acted differently. Thats according to a report into the 2017 tragedy in which 72 people died. The documents, sections of which have been seen by the bbc, is due to be published officially tomorrow. So was it right for the bbc to report on what it had seen of the report, even though it had been embargoed until the following day . Andy thought, i am disgusted that you continue the trend of publishing leaked reports stooping to an all time low of reporting. Time low of reporting the grenfell report ahead of schedule. You should be ashamed. A twitter user called rui agreed, asking why have the telegraph and the bbc breached the Grenfell Inquiry embargo . So insensitive to the family members and survivors . Others were concerned about the motives of those responsible for the leak, withjonathan edwards wondering who leaked the report and why. To deflect attention away from the real culprits . The bbc need to own up and to be more objective rather than just passing on the leak. Well, we did ask bbc news if we could interview someone on this subject, but nobody was available. Instead, bbc news gave us this statement once the telegraph released information from the leaked report. The story was widely reported elsewhere. The bbc, which had itself seen parts of a leaked report, took the editorial decision to cover the story. Based on that material, which was in the public interest, the report focuses on the response of the fire service on the night. But we also heard directly from two people who lost relatives in the fire and roy wiltshire, chair of the National Fire chiefs council. We also reported the criticism of the media releasing the information early. Thanks for all your comments this week. If you want to share your opinions on bbc news and Current Affairs or even appear here on newsatch then do contact us. Do have a look at our web page. Thats all from us. Well be back to hear your thoughts about bbc News Coverage again next week. Until then, from all of us on the programme goodbye. Its hardly surprising if i tell you that there is more rain in the forecast for this weekend and some very windy weather on the way as well, starting the early hours of saturday morning. The met office has issued a Severe Weather warning and winds could prove disruptive and even damaging during the course of saturday. This low pressure is heading our way and it is basically going to park itself over the uk during the course of the weekend, bringing unsettled weather. But it is also being mother weather. At the moment, it is still pretty chilly in the north of the country it is also bringing milder weather. In the short term, we have rain spreading through Northern Ireland into scotland, may be the odd clear spell, but the real story is this area here. Just to the south of ireland, there is a swathe of strong winds is here early on saturday morning at the onset of the gales around five en one the coast of cornwall and devon and south coast of wales as well. It is to the south of wales as well. It is to the south of there is that we have the strongest core of winds and they have a core of rain. That will be tracking across southern parts of the uk. From the morning onwards, that strong wind and the rain impacting the rest of the country, central and southern england and just nudging into the south midlands, east midlands and east anglia. At the same time, Northern England, much lighter winds here, belfast and glasgow, her daily wind at all. It will be the southern portion of the uk. Hardly any wind at all. Could hit eight e mails per hour in some exposed places and in london up to 60 mph and that could prove disruptive could hit 80 mph in some exposed places. There could be tree damage from this winter. Across Northern England and elects a new car so winter. Across Northern England and elects a new car so there could be some sunshine. Temperatures, weather any south or north of the country, will be the same ten or 12 celsius. That low pressure is going to park itself across the uk. It will pack itself across the uk. It will pack itself and start to blow itself out. They went so much lighter on sunday. A bit ofa they went so much lighter on sunday. A bit of a breeze out there, but i think the real message for sunday is just how changeable the weather is going to be from sunny spells to occasional heavy showers. That will continue into monday. Goodbye. This is bbc news, im lukwesa burak. The headlines at 8pm nigel farage calls on borisjohnson to join forces for the election, but borisjohnson says therell be no deal. Any other party, voting for any other party, it risks putting Jeremy Corbyn into numberio. 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