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“I don’t think it displays BBC bias in the slightest. The audience saw it for what it was."

Such hits as "Vote May or we face disaster" and David Cameron is "our only hope" have come back to haunt Liz Truss's press lapdogs.

The BBC director-general and chairman addressed Emily Maitlis’ speech while appearing before a Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee.

"It's a deeply unpleasant propaganda video and bears no relation to reality", Margaret Thatcher's former aide wailed.

"He did this mock applause after Liz Truss left the chair" and called her the "back wash of the available MPs", Steve Brine fumed.

“How could that possibly be the right thing for the BBC to do," one said.

“It’s a serious point, Joe. Forgive me. It’s a serious point.”

“In the current economic climate of high inflation, the rising cost of living, widespread strike action and public services trying to rebuild from the pandemic, now is the time to focus on more pressing challenges than the unpopular privatisation of a beloved broadcaster."

Now 'even Boris critic says Partygate probe is wrong', according to the Daily Express and Daily Mail, but other papers slam Johnson.