I think it's you that needs to re-read the article.
Here is the only qualification that he gives to the material he then goes on to discuss:
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This is where you get to hear all the news that’s not fit to print – what’s really going on behind closed doors but which doesn’t make it into the programme either because it’s too “inside” or because it isn’t possible to stand up. So without revealing my sources, let me give you some of the headlines.
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The material he then imparts we can take to be genuine. It was not reported as news at the time because nobody would go on the record to confirm it. This is not surprising; the BBC's rules on reporting single-source or anonymous, uncorroborated sources is well known, especially post-Hutton.
If you are allowing the fact that he chose to use the word 'gossip' in the next sentence to blind you to this, then so far as I can see you are either wilfully doing so, or else you have serious difficulty with some of the subtleties of English communication. Perhaps you could say which.