Esler: McAlpine report "would embarrass a student journalist"

Gavin Esler

Newsnight presenter Gavin Esler has branded the programme’s report that led to the linking of Lord McAlpine with child abuse claims as an “abominable” error “that would embarrass a student journalist”.

Basic errors of judgement

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