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THE SUN SAYS
BBC failed parents at centre of Huw Edwards scandal at the start & is failing them again now
Union militants have wasted no time plotting to wreck the upcoming Bank Holiday
BBC’s failures
THE scandal surrounding Huw Edwards began when The Sun was approached by a desperate couple.
They had firm evidence that the star was paying large sums to a vulnerable young person with a drug problem — and receiving explicit pictures.
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The parents wanted those payments to stop, but their complaints to the BBC had been ignored.
Two months ago the corporation apologised to the couple for failing to take their allegations seriously until The Sun intervened.
It was a vindication for the parents and for our public interest journalism.
Yesterday, more than nine months after our first report, the BBC announced that Edwards had resigned with immediate effect.
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The statement was curt.
Observers will note the absence of any warm words or thanks for the presenter’s 40 years of service.
Equally noteworthy is that Edwards will get no pay-off.
Shockingly, though, the parents are left without proper answers.
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The BBC refuses to say what its internal investigations into the multiple complaints against Edwards found . . . or even if they were properly concluded.
As the young person’s mum says: “We just want closure, and this doesn’t take us any closer to it.”
The BBC failed them at the start of this sorry episode. It is failing them again now.
You blockheads
IF Labour is so certain the Rwanda scheme is a dud, why did its MPs and peers devote so much energy to blocking it?
It would surely have served them better to let Rishi Sunak’s flagship plan fail — taking him down with it.
The truth is they secretly fear it will succeed and give the PM a poll boost.
Plenty of realists in politics, including in the EU, believe such a deterrent is vital.
Labour just cannot admit it.
Its own “solutions” are a depressingly vacuous list, already tried in vain.
If the Rwanda scheme doesn’t fix this appalling scandal, it won’t be fixed.
Wrecking crew
ANOTHER Bank Holiday break looms — and union militants have wasted no time plotting to wreck it.
Aslef, allied to the Labour Party, demands a BETTER deal than the £65,000 four-day week its train drivers have already been offered.
And with talks stalled it aims to cripple the network with strikes from May 7.
Heathrow’s plane refuellers are walking out too over some grievance.
The brothers may not have long to wait.
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Their Labour mates look sure to win power — and all their Christmases will then come at once.
With a new Government vastly increasing unions’ power and buckling to every whim.
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