Emily Maitlis has cleared up claims she was 'replaced' on Newsnight on Wednesday after her Dominic Cummings monologue row. A day after Mr Cummings' held a press conference outside Number 10, the BBC journalist opened Newsnight by saying: "Dominic Cummings broke the rules.
The country can see that, and it's shocked the government cannot." But while many viewers praised her for her comments, the BBC later ruled that the presenter's comments on Prime Minister Boris Johnson's chief adviser, who drove 260 miles from London to Durham during lockdown, breached impartiality rules.
Emily was then absent from last night's Newsnight with many claims she had been forced to take time off from the programme. However it has now been clarified that she
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