Five Against One — And Still The BBC Or Established Parties Couldn’t Land A Glove

A licence-fee-funded ambush, a mayor in meltdown, and the council tax lie that fell apart on air.

If you ever wondered what your licence fee actually buys, here’s your answer: a Sunday morning telly programme where the BBC parks five members of the political Left (including the Tory) around a table and points the lot of them at a single Reform UK politician, in the hope that sheer weight of numbers will do what their arguments can’t.

Welcome to BBC Politics. Five against one. And reader, they still couldn’t land a glove.