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other viewers agreed, including heidi morgan, who recorded this video. martine croxall s behaviour on october the 23rd must be viewed as unacceptable by the industry and by viewers. stories need to be reported on in an unbiased manner. journalists are not to side with any individual or party. in my view, croxall s behaviour shows poorjudgement and contradicts neutral reporting and possibly breaches the code of conduct on journalism as well. there were also defenders of martine, such asjenny bradley: bbc news were unable to provide someone to talk about this while the matter was being investigated. instead, they pointed us towards this statement, which was issued on monday. we mentioned last week, the concerns of some of you that a sequence of vox pops featuring those who wanted borisjohnson back as prime minister was not representative of the public s views, or editorially justified. well, there have been plenty more interviews since then with members of the public. here s a
it s not easy to find quick fixes for housing problems, which could leave some students struggling next year, too. branwen jeffreys, bbc news, manchester. you are watching bbc news now newswatch. hello and welcome to news watch with me, samira ahmed. questions are asked after a news channel presenter talks of her glee during a paper review on the night borisjohnson pulls out of the tory leadership contest. i don t know, i don t think i ll be voting again after what happened to boris johnson. that reporter s staple, the vox pop. do we really need to be told so often what random strangers think? demonstrating impartiality on air, as we discussed on last week s programme, is one of the key goals and challenges for bbc news. it wasn t long before the fraught nature of that ambition was exposed again, with the addition of the paper review on the news channel on sunday night, shortly before it was broadcast on a day of high political drama, it emerged that borisjohnson had withdraw
politics comes at us rather fast these days, doesn t it? this autumn s second new prime minister inherits a nightmarish soup of political and economic gloom. his task starts now. we ll have more from chris in this extended edition of bbc news at six, as we consider the prospects for a sunak premiership. at westminster, the main opposition parties are united on the need for a general election so that millions of voters can have their say. election so that millions of voters can have their say. labour thinks we should be having can have their say. labour thinks we should be having a can have their say. labour thinks we should be having a general- can have their say. labour thinks we should be having a general election. i think everyone i ve spoken to in the public has said we should be having a general election. there is no mandate now. he having a general election. there is no mandate now. having a general election. there is no mandate now. he should call an early genera
imposed. douglas ross, their leader here, said it had been a difficult and unsettling time for the party and unsettling time for the party and the nation, as he congratulate mr sunak at mr sunak. polls suggest that what has happened as a result of the turmoil is that some scottish voters have shifted potentially from the conservatives to labour but the snp remains pretty static and a way ahead and on independence, the nation remains more or less evenly divided on that. the first minister of wales, mark drakeford the first minister of wales, mark drakeford of labour, congratulated rishi sunak but at the same time took a rishi sunak but at the same time took a rather unsubtle swipe at both liz truss took a rather unsubtle swipe at both liz truss and boris johnson. his statement liz truss and boris johnson. his statement said he looked forward to working statement said he looked forward to working constructively with mr sunak in a way working constructively with mr