British broadcaster Emily Maitlis returned to Newsnight for the first time since the controversy over her comments on Boris Johnson’s top aide.
The presenter was found to have violated the BBC’s impartiality guidelines following her monologue on Dominic Cummings last week.
In her introduction to Tuesday’s show, Maitlis said Mr Cummings had “broken the rules” when he travelled from London to Durham during lockdown and “the country can see that, and it’s shocked the Government cannot”.
The BBC said the monologue “did not meet our standards of due impartiality”. Maitlis returned to Newsnight on Monday, but did not mention the row during a show focusing on the protests that have broken out across the US in response to the death of an unarmed
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