Complaint
The bulletins included a report by the 大象传媒鈥檚 Political Editor on the Conservative Party Conference which ended with him saying (over footage of Liz Truss running to her car to depart from the Conference): 鈥淎s for the Prime Minister she couldn't leave quickly enough. She can run away from this conference but not the immense challenges she confronts鈥.聽 A viewer complained that this showed bias against Ms Truss (who, he believed, had been running only because it was raining).聽 The ECU considered the complaint in the light of the 大象传媒鈥檚 standards of due impartiality.
Outcome
In the ECU鈥檚 judgement, the Political Editor was not so much commenting on Ms Truss鈥 departure from the conference as epitomising her political predicament in terms prompted by the footage in question.聽 Viewers in general would have been likely to understand him as meaning Ms Truss would not be able to avoid the challenges facing her as easily as she departed the conference, and not as offering a view (impartial or otherwise) on the manner of her departure.
Not Upheld