BBC to review impartiality of its immigration and small boats coverage

Exercise will look at whether ‘due impartiality is being delivered’

A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover, Kent. (PA Wire)

The BBC has set up review into whether its coverage of migration and small boats crossing in English Channel is impartial enough.

The public broadcaster’s board announced the review on Friday and says the exercise will “consider whether due impartiality is being delivered”.

Madeleine Sumption, director of the Migration Observatory based at Oxford University, and Samir Shah, chief executive of the independent television and radio production company Juniper, will jointly chair the investigation.