we start with breaking news this hour. at the centre of the allegations over paying another young person for explicit pictures. bbc news has spoken to a young person in their early 20s who says they felt threatened by the same bbc presenter who is currently this young person was first contacted anonymously by the bbc presenter via a dating app and claims the presenter then sent menacing messages. helen know wilkinson is in the studio with me right now watching the development of the story, just take us through this second set of claims. fix, take us through this second set of claims. , ., take us through this second set of claims. ,, , ,., take us through this second set of claims. ,, , .,, ., take us through this second set of claims. , ., “ claims. a young person has told bbc news that they claims. a young person has told bbc news that they felt claims. a young person has told bbc news that they felt threatened - claims. a young person has told bbc news that
More complaints about this presenter and in the last hour we ve heard from a second young person. your assessment in terms of where we are. the first thing to say how extraordinary it is that the bbc, as always the first to report the problems by the bbc is the bbc, and your director general has allowed himself to be brutalised, obviously knows whole no holds bars interviews. director general about thejimmy interviews. director general about the jimmy seibel case interviews. director general about thejimmy seibel case and within hours. i imagine that we can all expect that in these circumstances a new spare newspaper editor is unlikely to be that brave. the problems with bbc are absolutely a
Was saying, nobody told me that what we were doing was wrong. when he came to the dispatch box today, it almost seemed very rehearsed. and itjust it almost seemed very rehearsed. and it just shows throughout it almost seemed very rehearsed. and itjust shows throughout his statement, even if keir starmer expressed the fact that many people have gone through so much, and feel guilty, you still have the prime minister dropped that apology very quickly and start going on the offensive, accusing keir starmer of not putting jimmy seibel behind bars, which is not true. we even had some of the prime minister s most loyal supporters after the statement thanking the prime minister, backing the news. it seems as if they were back to square one. he s got some
The prime minister didn t intend the head of his policy unit wasn t expected to go yesterday, as a result of him slurring jimmy seibel, as she saw it. the other three who went yesterday were probably in line to go sooner rather than later because they were all imbricated in some way. so i don t think the fact that they left as any surprise, but the way they went simultaneously was. we don t know whether there there was any continuity there, whether replacements have been found or they ve all been told to clear their desks and ijust left, and there are now a lot of vacant desks in what is a quite small operation. and those were the top people, they were the top of the press office, private office, and the overall person and charge, dan rosenfield. now he s got to get a new team together. and your experience, how easyis together. and your experience, how easy is it to get that quickly and