The BBC won’t be making any more episode of The Mash Report.
News that the Nish Kumar-fronted show has been dropped has been greeted with glee by right-wing newspapers who considered it a hotbed of liberal, anti-Brexit bias.
New director-general Tim Davie, a former local Conservative party chairman, has pledged to make impartiality across the Corporation one of his biggest priorities.
However, Davie later branded claims that he was targetting comedy shows as ‘nonsense’, saying: ‘Comedy has always been poking at authority. If a particular government is in charge you probably do get a bit more edge against those in power, that’s how it works. And, by the way, I want good satire on the BBC. I like being adventurous.’