Emily Maitlis' opening monologue about Dominic Cummings on Newsnight has once again come under-fire by a BBC boss as row reignites.
The BBC's head of news, Fran Unsworth, has said that the 49-year-old Newsnight presenter's words about Boris Johnson's special advisor belonged "more on the op-ed page in a newspaper" than as the introduction to "an impartial broadcast programme".
Unsworth defended the BBC's ruling that the introduction "did not meet our standards of due impartiality". Maitlis opened the programme on BBC Two by saying Mr Cummings had "broken the rules" and "the country can see that, and it's shocked the Government cannot".
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