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The Labor Party has directly accused the BBC of "consciously" supporting Boris Johnson and having contributed to the anti-Corbyn campaign orchestrated by the British media. Labor deputy and secretary 'in the shadow' of Transport, Andy McDonald, has opened fire claiming that "public television played a worrying role" in supporting the conservative 'premier'.

"With the campaign against us in print media we already had, but it is assumed that public television should have behaved in an impartial manner," McDonald said. "When you hear a BBC host [Alex Forsyth] say that Boris Johnson is about to get 'the vast majority he deserves," he is clearly supporting him consciously. "

Boris Johnson has counterattacked on his part accusing BBC Radio 4 of "anti-conservative bias" and threatening to decriminalize the non-payment of the television license charged to millions of Britons and which is one of the main sources of television financing public

Labor McDonald has meanwhile extended his criticism to conservative newspapers for his campaign of "'vilfication' of Jeremy Corbyn", condemned as "Marxist", "anti-Semitic" and "supporter of the IRA" by headers such as 'The Daily Mail', 'The Sun' and 'The Daily Telegraph', which dedicated pages and more pages daily to shoot at the Labor leader.

"I begin to fear for our democratic process," McDonald warned, emphasizing the role of the three newspapers as a sounding board for Boris Jonhson. "In my life I have seen an equal campaign of grotesque demonization and defamation launched against a public figure," concluded the Labor deputy, in statements to BBC Radio 5.

Meanwhile, the succession of Jeremy Corbyn is unleashing an open war between the different factions of the party. The 'Corbynist' apparatus, backed by the Momentum internal current, has supported Rebecca Long-Bailery as the successor to the 'shadow' secretary 'for economic affairs, John McDonnell, who insisted that the new or the new leader They must be from "outside London."

Lisa Nandy and Angela Rayner stand out in the meantime as candidates for the "soft left," while the campaign against Party Foreign Spokeswoman Emily Thornberry, a supporter of the permanence, is accused of having called pro-Brexit Labor voters "stupid." (something she has flatly denied).

Corbyn, who on Tuesday will continue to appear as leader of the opposition against Boris Johnson at the premiere of the new Parliament, intends in any case to control the succession by opening a "period of reflection" that would culminate on January 7 with the presentation of the nominations and the holding of primary elections in deck. The Labor leader is resisting internal pressures to present his resignation immediately and leave the party in the hands of an interim leader until his succession.

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