BBC Bosses Plan to Win Over Reform Voters’ Trust By Changing News and Drama Output

The Director-General and other executives have discussed altering ‘story selection’ to build a better rapport with supporters of Nigel Farage’s party. Adam Bienkov reports

The BBC Director-General Tim Davie and other senior bosses at the corporation have drawn up plans to win over voters of Reform UK, because of a belief that its news and drama output is creating “low trust issues” with supporters of Nigel Farage’s party.

Minutes of a meeting of the BBC’s Editorial Guidelines and Standards Committee in March – seen by Byline Times – show that BBC News’ CEO Deborah Turness gave a presentation in which she discussed plans to alter “story selection” and “other types of output, such as drama” in order to win the trust of Reform voters.

The committee – which includes former GB News executive and Director of Communications for Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May, Sir Robbie Gibb – also identified “the importance of local BBC teams” to win over supporters of Farage.