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BBC halts civil servant scheme after impartiality row over government staff being sent into the newsroom to write and fact-check articles on Covid and boat migrants

MailOnline · Oct 18, 2026
BBC halts civil servant scheme after impartiality row over government staff being sent into the newsroom to write and fact-check articles on Covid and boat migrants

Since 2018, the corporation has offered six-month secondments for up to two civil servant statisticians to work with BBC News's head of statistics.

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