BBC chair's quest for 'diversity'

BBC chairman Samir Shah has said the broadcaster needs “more variety” and “diversity of thought’, as well as more staff who are “Northern working class’.

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Mr Shah, 73, who is responsible for upholding and protecting the inde- pendence of the BBC, reflected on claims the corporation has a liberal bias. “The media recruits graduates from the arts, humanities, and they tend to be metropolitan and to have a point of view you could describe as liberal centre, centre left. We kind of reflect that,’ he has told The Times.