Newsnight, apology, BBC Two, 2 June

Summary of complaint

We received complaints from viewers who were unhappy the presenter Matt Chorley mistakenly quoted Nigel Farage.


Our response

We issued a correction on this matter on our Corrections and Clarifications page: https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications/

“In an interview about the murder of 18 year old Henry Nowak, we mistakenly quoted the Reform UK leader Nigel Farage as saying people should respond to his death with a “white, cold rage”. To be clear Mr Farage actually said “pure, cold rage” as had been stated earlier in the programme and we apologise to him for this error. The programme has been removed from BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds”.

We also did an on-air apology at the start of the next edition of Newsnight and shared that on the programme’s social media channel.