Responding, the shadow culture secretary Nigel Huddlestone accused the broadcaster of a lack of impartiality when it came to certain issues. He said the BBC had “strayed far from its editorial guidelines, including in its coverage of trans rights, its selective push notifications [texts alerting readers to breaking news] ... in the Gaza documentary, in the output of the Arabic news service, and in its reliance on [statistics] provided by Hamas. All those things speak to bias at the BBC. “At a time when antisemitism is rising around the world, the BBC should surely think twice about distributing questionable data...