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Carol Vorderman takes swipe at the BBC for her 'sexist' sacking as she speaks out on Huw Edwards' salary controversy - after being dropped from her show over anti-Tory tweets


The former Countdown star, 63, has not held back in an interview with The Sunday Times as she said she was 'threatened' by the Beep for her tweets about the then Conservative government.

Carol had been accused of 'flagrantly breaching' the BBC's impartiality rules with her anti-Tory outbursts, which have included calling ministers 'a lying bunch of greedy, corrupt, destructive, hateful, divisive, gaslighting crooks'. Carol had been accused of 'flagrantly breaching' the BBC's impartiality rules with her anti-Tory outbursts -calling ministers 'a lying bunch of greedy...divisive, gaslighting crooks' Under the BBC's new social media guidelines, presenters on flagship programmes including Match Of The Day (MOTD) and The Apprentice have been banned from making attacks on political parties.

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