Nick Robinson Blasts Boris Johnson Amid BBC Anti-Trump Bias Row

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<div><img src="https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/69104cd8170000fb219c5019.jpeg?ops=scalefit_630_noupscale" alt="Nick Robinson has taken aim at Boris Johnson." data-caption="Nick Robinson has taken aim at Boris Johnson." data-credit-link-back="" data-credit="BBC/AP" />Nick Robinson has taken aim at Boris Johnson.</div><div class="content-list-component text"><p><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/nick-robinson/">Nick Robinson</a> has hit out at <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/boris-johnson/">Boris Johnson</a> amid a furious row over claims a flagship BBC programme “doctored” a speech by <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/donald-trump/">Donald Trump</a>.</p><p>The corporation’s chairman, Samir Shah, <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/the-bbc-is-reportedly-set-to-apologise-over-the-donald-trump-panorama-row_uk_691044c0e4b0853433846df7">is set to apologise</a> on Monday following criticism of a Panorama broadcast last October.</p><p>A dossier by former BBC adviser Michael Prescott said it had spliced together two sections of President Trump’s speech to supporters shortly before the January 6 riots to give a misleading impression of what he actually said.</p><p>Trump’s spokeswoman, Karoline Leavitt, <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/donald-trumps-spokeswoman-brands-bbc-100-fake-news-over-panorama-row_uk_690ee4c8e4b0dd4ea75bc269">has branded the BBC “100% fake news”</a> over the controversy.</p><p>Writing in the Daily Mail on Saturday, Johnson said BBC director general Tim Davie had serious questions to answer.</p><p>The former prime minister said: “It is time for reporters to stand outside Davie’s house, in the time-honoured way, and shout at him: ‘
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