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Watch: BBC presenters mock minister’s Union Jack

Robert Jenrick (photo: BBC)

The BBC is attempting today to break out of its London-centric mindset. The new Director General Tim Davie told BBC staff in a call this morning that the corporation will move 400 jobs out of the capital, and promised to make programmes that are more relevant to people who live outside the M25.

Mr S wonders though if simply sending BBC staff up north will be enough, if BBC Breakfast (which broadcasts from Salford) was anything to go by this morning.

On the show, housing secretary Robert Jenrick was interviewed by BBC presenters, who ended the segment by sniggering at the minister’s Union Jack in the background of his office and his portrait of the Queen on the wall:

Mr S imagines that’s not quite what Davie had in mind when he talked about the BBC getting ‘closer to real audiences’ and offering a real national service this morning…

Update: Jenrick has now tweeted out a picture of the offending banner and portrait, no doubt to the annoyance of the usual suspects… 

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