BBC Director General Tim Davie was grilled today by the Commons public accounts committee and for Tory MP James Wild there was one item top of his agenda: flags. It follows last week’s sniggering incident in which two BBC breakfast presenters appeared to poke fun at Robert Jenrick’s Union Jack.
Wild asked Davie: ‘In your own report last year of 268 pages, do you know how many union flags were pictured in any of the graphics?’ to which the BBC man replied: ‘In all the briefings I got for this meeting, that was not one of them’ prompting Wild’s answer: ‘Zero.’
Wild went on: ‘Maybe in the annual report for this year perhaps you could include some imagery around the union flag. It might be welcomed by some of my constituents.’ Mr S wonders at what point MPs will begin to flag of this issue and consider it time to jack it in?
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