{"id":619287,"date":"2026-06-03T17:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T17:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/619287\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T17:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T17:46:08","slug":"bbcs-matt-chorley-apologises-for-misquoting-nigel-farage-on-newsnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/619287\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC’s Matt Chorley apologises for misquoting Nigel Farage on Newsnight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Writing on X on Wednesday, Chorley said:, external<\/a> “I owe Nigel Farage an apology. <\/p>\n

“During last night’s Newsnight, we covered the murder of Henry Nowak and the political reaction to the case, including discussing Nigel Farage’s comments about ‘pure, cold rage’. However I referred to ‘white cold rage’. <\/p>\n

“This was a mistake on my part, a misremembering of the quote. It didn’t change the content of the interview but I should have got the quote right. I apologise to Nigel Farage for this.”<\/p>\n

Chorley gave the wrong quote on camera three times during the interview with Badenoch.<\/p>\n

The BBC also apologised directly to Farage and published an apology<\/a>, which said he had been quoted “mistakenly”.<\/p>\n

The episode has been removed from BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds, and an apology will be broadcast on Wednesday’s edition of Newsnight.<\/p>\n

Writing on X on Wednesday, Farage said, external<\/a> his legal team had “written to the BBC demanding a full on-air apology and investigation into the defamatory comments made about me on Newsnight”, adding: “Enough is enough.”<\/p>\n

The Reform leader posted a link to a Daily Mail story that reproduced elements of the party’s letter to the BBC.<\/p>\n

In the letter, Reform said Chorley’s error “converts a criticism of discriminatory conduct by the authorities into an apparent appeal to race”.<\/p>\n

“It suggests that Mr Farage, far from condemning racialised treatment, was himself invoking race as a basis for public anger.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Writing on X on Wednesday, Chorley said:, external “I owe Nigel Farage an apology. “During last night’s Newsnight,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-619287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}