Ed Miliband today called on BBC staff not to walk out during the Tory party conference next week.
The new Labour leader insisted David Cameron’s keynote speech should not be disrupted in the ‘interests of impartiality and fairness’.
His intervention came after BBC heavyweights told unions to call off the ‘partisan’ industrial action, which is targeting the Conservative event.
Many of the corporation’s most respected presenters and reporters, including Jeremy Paxman and Nick Robinson, warned it would make the BBC appear biased.
Mr Miliband said today: ‘Whatever the rights and wrongs of the dispute between Bectu and the BBC, they should not be blacking out the Prime Minister’s speech.
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‘My speech was seen and heard on the BBC and in the interests of impartiality and fairness, so the Prime Minister’s should be.’
The new Labour leader’s comments are yet another sign that he will not be in hock politically to the
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unions, whose votes ensured he beat his brother David.
They prompted a furious reaction from broadcasting union Bectu general secretary Gerry Morrissey.
