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BBC and Channel 4 News both accept failure to reveal Labour links of NHS ‘winter crisis’ sources

By James Walker

The BBC and Channel 4 News have both accepted their failure to identify the Labour Party links of two medical personnel who spoke about the alleged winter NHS crisis.

Channel 4 referred to Dagan Lonsdale as a “junior doctor” on Channel 4 News last night without mentioning that he spoke at the launch of Labour’s “NHS New Deal” plan in May 2017.

During his appearance on Channel 4 News, which has been shared more than 2000 times on Twitter, Lonsdale said an NHS crisis had been created by the Government.

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