MPs raise questions over The Sun and BBC’s reporting of Huw Edwards allegations

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Dame Caroline Dinenage, chair of parliament’s culture committee, raised concerns with The Sun editor Victoria Newton about potential “inaccuracies, changing narratives and lack of engagement” with those involved in its stories about Mr Edwards. Dame Caroline also wrote to the BBC’s acting chair Dame Elan Closs Stephens asking for the broadcaster to clarify the process around its reviews into the allegations against Mr Edwards. In her letter to Ms Newton, Dame Caroline said “given the concerns” about The Sun’s reporting, the culture committee would be “interested to understand what was done to verify this specific story”. Dan Wootton has claimed he is the victim of a “witch hunt” after he was accused of using fake online identities to trick men into sending him sexually explicit images in exchange for tens of thousands of pounds Dame Caroline said the committee did not want to “challenge individual stories or editorial decisions”, but it is important for the public to have confidence in the editorial standards of a newspaper.