Open Letter to Tony Hall, Director General of the BBC on Inclusion and Equality in the Leader’s Debates

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Open Letter to Tony Hall

Director-General of the BBC

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This Open Letter to Tony Hall  was re-published in Daily Wales: News of a Sovereign Nation on 5 January 2015.

28 December 2014

Anthony William Hall, Baron Hall of Birkenhead

Dear Mr. Hall (tony.hall@bbc.co.uk), Director-General of the BBC

Rationale for the Open Letter

The purpose of this letter is twofold. On the one hand, I would like to provide a critical response to the stated methodology for the BBC’s exclusion from the Leader’s Debates for the General Election 2015 not only of the Green Party, but also the SNP and Plaid Cymru – The Party of Wales. On the other hand, since the BBC has stated that it has initiated a period of Consultation through which it will finalise the Guidelines for the 2015 Election Debates, it is thus possible that the BBC will decide to alter its position with respect to the inclusion of the Leaders of The Green Party, SNP and Plaid Cymru – The Party of Wales.

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