BBC Quietly Edits Question Time After Wrongly ‘Correcting’ Richard Tice on Key Net Zero Claim

 The BBC has quietly edited an episode of Question Time after wrongly ‘correcting’ Reform’s Richard Tice on a claim about CO2 emissions. Tice said humans are responsible for just 4% of emissions but Fiona Bruce falsely said it was a third. The Telegraph has the story.

Richard Tice, the Reform UK Deputy Leader, appeared on Thursday night’s panel show following his party’s sweeping gains in the local elections last week.

During the show, which was recorded before a live audience but broadcast later, he was asked about his party’s position on climate change policies, which he said was to “scrap Net stupid Zero”.

In the debate, Fiona Bruce, the host, intervened to correct Mr Tice on the proportion of carbon emissions that are man-made.

The MP for Boston and Skegness claimed that it was “about 3 or 4%” of all emissions, to which Bruce said that, according to Nasa, it was around a third.

Mr Tice claimed that he approached a BBC editor after the show to tell them that the statistic was a mistake, and was informed that the information had come from BBC Verify, the broadcaster’s fact-checking unit.

The exchange with Bruce was then edited out of the programme, but the BBC has not reflected this in the show uploaded to its iPlayer....<<<Read More>>>...