Corbyn’s box that might well have explained his defeat other than one ‘Panorama’ transmitted six months before the election to slightly under 2 million people,” Ware says. “Being as dispassionate as I can, I think it’s fair to say there were quite a number of other deficiencies in Mr. The program has acquired a “totemic” status in the eyes of some on the hard-leftĪnd he dismisses suggestions that the program had a “key role” in Labour’s defeat. “Three weeks before the election,” he says, “I’d also made a program about Boris Johnson and written a script that said, in terms, the prime minister has got a tenuous relationship to the truth and what’s more I had a witness to show that - his former American mistress.” Ware describes the allegation that his work on “Panorama” was motivated by political bias and a desire to stop Corbyn from entering Downing Street as “ludicrous infantile.” Flyers attacking “Panorama” were also handed out to employees outside the BBC’s Broadcasting House in central London.
Press Gang’s allegations against Ware were also published in a glossy pamphlet that was delivered to 100 senior BBC staff, as well as a further 200 journalists at national newspapers and broadcasters. (Facebook page of the Palestinian embassy in Tunisia) Jeremy Corbyn (second from left) holding a wreath during a visit to the Martyrs of Palestine, in Tunisia, in October 2014. On BBC radio, Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi of the Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL) - a pro-Corbyn group that believes allegations of antisemitism in the party are designed to silence criticism of Israel - falsely claimed Ware’s journalism had included “right-wing, racist work” and that he had “engaged in Islamophobia and extreme, far-right politics.” Labour’s attack was, however, simply the opening salvo. Whatever people may think about the BBC, that doesn’t happen,” he says. “If you follow the logic it means not just me, but my colleagues, and the legal department and the editorial chain of command, some or all of us sat around and colluded. The Labour party was the aspirant government Critics were entitled, Ware says, to say it was “a lousy program or terrible journalism,” but he refused to allow claims that he had deliberately misled viewers to go unchallenged. The Labour party was the aspirant government,” he says. He was nonetheless shocked by the party’s response. He fully expected Labour to be critical of the program. He’s tracked down Nazi war criminals in South America, investigated allegations of a “dirty war” by British forces in Northern Ireland, and exposed abuses of human rights in Saudi Arabia. In his 40 years as a broadcaster, Ware has reported on a wide range of contentious topics. Jeremy Corbyn leaves his home in north London on December 13, 2019. I thought they were brave they’ve had a lot of flack “I thought they were brave they’ve had a lot of flack,” Ware says. Such was the atmosphere in the party by this time that Luciana Berger, a prominent Jewish MP who had campaigned against antisemitism, had required police protection at Labour’s annual conference the previous autumn. He recognizes too that their decision to come forward had not been easy. And while they weren’t experts in antisemitism - unsurprisingly, because Jew-hate hadn’t been an issue in the center-left party until Corbyn’s election as leader in 2015 - Ware says they were “very decent people who didn’t like what they saw.” “They described a really horrible atmosphere of toxicity and unpleasantness,” he recalls. Illustrative: Protesters chant slogans during a demonstration organized by the Campaign Against Antisemitism against alleged prejudice in the Labour Party, amid a row over the party’s handling of claims of anti-Semitism, outside the Labour Party headquarters, in London, April 8, 2018.
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