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Dan Walker blasts PM-hopeful Liz Truss’ remarks on the BBC: ‘This is an incredibly dangerous slur’-Charlotte Manning-Entertainment – Metro
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Former BBC Breakfast host Dan Walker has criticised Liz Truss for accusing the BBC of ’not getting their facts right’ during a GB News hustings.
Ms Truss and fellow leadership hopeful Rishi Sunak have been up and down the UK trying to get Conservative Party members onside and took part in their latest hustings event run by GB News on Friday night.
However, at one point, Ms Truss, who has already been critical of the media on her campaign run, decided to jibe at the BBC after host Alistair Stewart made a minor mishap.
After referencing a report the PM-hopeful wrote ‘in 2019’, which Ms Truss noted was, in fact, written in 2009, she laughed and told Stewart: ‘I always thought you had high-quality standards at GB News.’
He insisted: ‘We do, we do,’ before she replied: ‘It’s not the BBC, you actually get your facts right.’
The audience quickly laughed at the remark, which Stewart insisted was ‘not rehearsed’.
Truss criticised the BBC during the GB News hustings (Picture: GB News)
Former BBC favourite Walker reacted to the comments made by Ms Truss and labelled it ‘an incredibly dangerous slur’ on his Twitter account.
He added: ‘Dangerous for @trussliz, for every viewer… for all of us.’
The former BBC Breakfast host had strong words for Truss (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)
In the same thread, Walker also referenced abuse thrown at BBC journalist James Cook outside the Conservative leadership hustings in Perth earlier this week.
Protestors shouted insults at Cook, including calling him a ‘traitor’ and ‘scumbag rat.’
The Channel 5 presenter said the incident was ‘directly related’ to comments made by those such as Truss criticising the BBC.
Also⦠this â¬ï¸â¬ï¸â¬ï¸ is directly related to this â¬ï¸â¬ï¸â¬ï¸ pic.twitter.com/hjknc3yJeh— Dan Walker (@mrdanwalker) August 20, 2022
While he divided those in the comments, many were critical of the remarks made during last night’s hustings.
It’s not the first time the South West Norfolk MP has been called out for her attacks on the media after she made similar comments during a hustings hosted by TalkTV’s Tom Newton Dunn.
When the host asked a question comparing the hundreds of pounds her tax-cutting pledges would save workers, to the thousands Britons may have to spend on energy bills from 2023, she said: ‘You’re framing it in a left-wing way, Tom. The whole media does it all the time, drives me mad.’
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At the end of the event, she leaned into Mr Newton Dunn and said: ‘I’m sorry I was mean about the media.’
He replied: ‘It’s cheap and you know it.’
Metro.co.uk has reached out to representatives for Liz Truss who declined to comment, and the BBC.
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Former BBC Breakfast host Dan Walker has criticised Liz Truss for accusing the BBC of ’not getting their facts right’ during a GB News hustings.
Ms Truss and fellow leadership hopeful Rishi Sunak have been up and down the UK trying to get Conservative Party members onside and took part in their latest hustings event run by GB News on Friday night.
However, at one point, Ms Truss, who has already been critical of the media on her campaign run, decided to jibe at the BBC after host Alistair Stewart made a minor mishap.
After referencing a report the PM-hopeful wrote ‘in 2019’, which Ms Truss noted was, in fact, written in 2009, she laughed and told Stewart: ‘I always thought you had high-quality standards at GB News.’
He insisted: ‘We do, we do,’ before she replied: ‘It’s not the BBC, you actually get your facts right.’
The audience quickly laughed at the remark, which Stewart insisted was ‘not rehearsed’.
Truss criticised the BBC during the GB News hustings (Picture: GB News)
Former BBC favourite Walker reacted to the comments made by Ms Truss and labelled it ‘an incredibly dangerous slur’ on his Twitter account.
He added: ‘Dangerous for @trussliz, for every viewer… for all of us.’
The former BBC Breakfast host had strong words for Truss (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)
In the same thread, Walker also referenced abuse thrown at BBC journalist James Cook outside the Conservative leadership hustings in Perth earlier this week.
Protestors shouted insults at Cook, including calling him a ‘traitor’ and ‘scumbag rat.’
The Channel 5 presenter said the incident was ‘directly related’ to comments made by those such as Truss criticising the BBC.
While he divided those in the comments, many were critical of the remarks made during last night’s hustings.
It’s not the first time the South West Norfolk MP has been called out for her attacks on the media after she made similar comments during a hustings hosted by TalkTV’s Tom Newton Dunn.
When the host asked a question comparing the hundreds of pounds her tax-cutting pledges would save workers, to the thousands Britons may have to spend on energy bills from 2023, she said: ‘You’re framing it in a left-wing way, Tom. The whole media does it all the time, drives me mad.’
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At the end of the event, she leaned into Mr Newton Dunn and said: ‘I’m sorry I was mean about the media.’
He replied: ‘It’s cheap and you know it.’
Metro.co.uk has reached out to representatives for Liz Truss who declined to comment, and the BBC.
Got a story?
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