Mark Boothroyd was on BBC News last night expressing his concern about PPE shortages. Articulate and damning. A little too articulate and damning for a Guido co-conspirator who did a quick online search and quickly found what the BBC producer must have overlooked. Mark Boothroyd, who was introduced as an A & E nurse is, imagine our surprise, a Unite union activist, a committed socialist who supports the Labour Party, anti-Brexit, anti-Israel, anti-Zionist and in his own words “fights the Tories hard”. When his hospital gets another army-organised delivery of PPE it will put him in a bit of a quandary – he describes them as “imperialist forces”…

This afternoon BBC news has yet again provided no political context to their audience about the background of the activist/expert they are interviewing. The only introduction they gave to their expert doctor this afternoon was:

“Dr Paul Williams is a former MP and joins me from the clinic in Stockport in which he is now working”

The BBC came so close to identifying his allegiances, yet again failed to mention that not only was he a Labour MP, he is currently the Labour candidate campaigning to become a Police and Crime Commissioner. He, and this must have been a shock for the BBC producer, promptly proceeded to attack the Government for falling ‘woefully short’…

An exasperated Tory source tells Guido that “Broadcasters have a responsibility to their audiences to highlight when guests have a clear political bias.” They are monitoring the output closely…

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