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Originally Posted by Chris
The BBC's timescale in reporting this is not evidence of bias towards Labour. The original report was in the Sunday Times and it's clear that the BBC hasn't been able to verify it by talking to any sources of its own. All it would have been able to do is report exactly what the Sunday Times reported - effectively a 'single source' story, which the BBC has stated very publicly it does not do except in exceptional circumstances.
They are able to report it now because there is something verifiable in the public domain that can be said about it - namely the investigation by the Clerk of the House of Lords.
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Well I didn't claim the BBC are biased towards Labour (they're just fixated on PC) and I'd have been very happy if they'd simply have reported what the Times were claiming - after all they are very serious allegations which were widely reported amongst the rest of the media. There must be lots of occasions on which the BBC reports news it can't independently verify the accuracy of.