THE BBC has dismissed a complaint about a Politics Live broadcast which saw the question of a second independence referendum discussed “without representation from the SNP”. The corporation’s Executive Complaints Unit (ECU) probed the issue after a viewer claimed that the panel on the BBC Two programme, broadcast on November 29, “lacked balance”. After the Politics Live broadcast, a viewer complained that they thought it had “lacked balance and a debate on Scottish independence contained ‘numerous challenges to the principles of Scottish independence and the performance of the Scottish government’ without representation from the SNP”. However, the ECU dismissed the complaint, concluding that Saville Roberts (below) "was entirely capable of defending the position of the nationalist parties”. Elsewhere, the BBC’s ECU upheld a complaint that said Question Time host Fiona Bruce had “skewed” the debate by failing to count a show of hands accurately.
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