The BBC's Director-General Mark Thomson has called the cutting-short of Tony Blair's last Commons speech "a complete cock-up".
It's good to hear such bold language and to see an official holding their hand up so honestly.
BBC TV's Daily Politics broadcast Tony Blair's last Prime Minister's Questions. But they cut it off 45 seconds before it ended. They therefore missed the speech's climax and the historical standing ovation. Presenter Andrew Neill said "I am sorry but we will have to leave it there because it is over-running." You can read the ins and outs of the saga here from Iain Dale.
The debacle received a lot of angry complaints which were aired last week on BBC News 24's NewsWatch with Raymond Snoddy. In this week's programme they showed video of Mark Thomson appearing before MPs where he said "That was a complete cock-up...it goes with the category of very, very unfortunate mistake". The snapshot above is of the precise moment when he said the word "cock-up".
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