{"id":561527,"date":"2025-11-10T14:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T14:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/561527\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T14:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T14:16:13","slug":"bbc-downplayed-brexit-referendum-and-small-boats-crisis-former-culture-secretary-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/561527\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC &#8216;downplayed Brexit referendum and small boats crisis&#8217;, former Culture Secretary warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The BBC &#8220;downplayed Brexit referendum and small boats crisis&#8221;, the former Culture Secretary Sir John Whittingdale told GB News. <\/p>\n<p>Admitting that the corporation is booming with journalists &#8220;who do their best&#8221;, he added: &#8220;there has been a sort of institutional mindset for a long time, which has meant that, for instance, going back to the Brexit referendum, they didn&#8217;t really think that anybody was like going to actually vote for Brexit. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They downplayed and didn&#8217;t ever really appreciate the strength of feeling amongst the people about the level of migration and the small boats crisis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH THE CLIP ABOVE FOR MORE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n        Our Standards:<br \/>\n        The GB News Editorial Charter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The BBC &#8220;downplayed Brexit referendum and small boats crisis&#8221;, the former Culture Secretary Sir John Whittingdale told GB&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[192,802,748,4781,16513,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,5804,12,285,16,15,359],"class_list":{"0":"post-561527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-brexit","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-celebrity","12":"tag-clips","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-european","16":"tag-european-union","17":"tag-great-britain","18":"tag-migrant-crisis","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-politics","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-video"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115525830969295530","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}