David Owen said it was time for Britain to leave the EU. Speaking this morning, the SDP founder said Brexit was a way of restructuring Europe in the way it needed to be. Owen went on to say there was no need for Britain leaving behind the EU to be a damaging process:
Dame Janet Smith published her review into Jimmy Savile at the BBC. She said the management structure of the BBC was deeply referential. Janet Smith – whose report was criticised as an ‘expensive whitewash’ – said staff didn’t speak out ‘because they felt it was not their place’:
The BBC’s Lord Hall said it was a ‘grim period’ of the corporation’s history. Hall said the BBC needed to learn from what had happened:
Elsewhere, the Conservatives Adam Afriyie said Britain was ‘such a beautiful and wonderful place’ that it was no wonder people wanted to live here. He also insisted that the Government’s pledge to cut immigration was an ‘aspiration’, not a promise:
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