Complaint
Following an interview with Rebecca Long Bailey in that morning’s Today on Radio 4, Laura Kuenssberg tweeted that she had said “she voted for the plan to abolish Tom Watson’s position because she didn’t want to ‘stifle democracy’â€. A reader of the tweet complained that this was inaccurate.
Outcome
Ms Long Bailey said on Today that she had supported the right of the proposer to bring forward a motion for a vote. Although that action was widely taken to imply support for the aim of abolishing Tom Watson’s position, it was inaccurate to report her has having voted for a plan to do so. Independently of the ECU’s investigation, however, ±«Óãtv News posted an appropriate clarification on the Corrections and Clarifications page which sufficed to resolve the issues of complaint.
Resolved