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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: I read with interest your article (13 December) about the Labour Party threatening to suspend its co-operation with the Today programme. I was disgusted by the Tory attitude to the BBC and now it seems that Labour is following suit.
Politicians of every persuasion must realise that the BBC has every right to ask them, repeatedly if necessary, to tell the truth and the right to interrupt them if they are spouting the party line rather than replying to the question asked.
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