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BBC response to Bob Vylan’s IDF chants at Glastonbury ‘not good enough’, says minister

Jacqui Smith says live broadcast should have been pulled, but rapper stands by performance calling for ‘change in foreign policy’

A former head of news and current affairs at Channel 4, Dorothy Byrne, said that, had the BBC wanted to act more decisively on the broadcast, it would have been technically possible. She told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme there were questions to answer about the research it had done into Bob Vylan, adding: “They should really have had a politics producer in the gallery ready to advise them when and if something went wrong. He added: “As we grow older and our fire possibly starts to dim under the suffocation of adult life and all its responsibilities, it is incredibly important that we encourage and inspire future generations to pick up the torch that was passed to us.

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