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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Pretty sure if it did NOT

we would have heard that by now

So its just a breach of contract issue and hopefully he will be terminated

If it is stipulated in contract then half of the BBC will have to go - that's the issue here. I imagine if it is in contract, it's been casually unenforced for a long time... If they start they have to be consistent. A lot of BBC programming in general would be under a large question mark.

In practice I doubt the contract stipulates political neutrality OUTSIDE OF WORK because that would be very, very unusual. It sounds more like they've entered into negotiations with him requesting he tone it down, and he's said no.