Summary of complaint
We’ve received complaints about the decision to have Rachel Johnson on the panel given that she’s the sister of the former Prime Minister who was featuring in the news that day.
Our response
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg is a political programme which sets out to examine policies and hold politicians on all sides to account. It includes a panel of three which changes each week and which enables the programme to introduce a wide range of views, including from people with backgrounds in business and civil society, as well as politics.
On this occasion the credentials of all three panellists were made clear to the audience, including Rachel Johnson’s relationship to the former Prime Minister, to enable the audience to assess their respective positions and calibrate their remarks accordingly. Viewers heard a range of views on the issues raised, including the row about the ±«Óãtv Chairman Richard Sharp, and we are confident they were appropriately challenged.
We don’t agree that the programme failed in its duty of due impartiality.