Gary Lineker row signals Labour’s intention to call out BBC ‘bias’

Party insiders say a change of tactic means there will be a more muscular approach in making its own case about impartiality

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Prime minister’s questions has totemic status in Westminster but is often given a far greater weight by political pundits than it really deserves.

But this week’s exchange between Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak on Gary Lineker and the BBC was far more illuminating than most. It told us something new about how Labour intends to approach the national broadcaster.