MP welcomes 'swift' BBC rebuke of presenter over climate sceptic tweet

Adam Rutherford may have compromised BBC's impartiality by criticising Labour MP Graham Stringer, a climate change sceptic, standards team says

The BBC has reprimanded the presenter of Radio 4's Inside Science after he called on his Twitter followers to write to their local MPs about the reappointment of Graham Stringer, a climate change sceptic, to a parliamentary committee.

Adam Rutherford "potentially compromised the BBC's impartiality" by publicly criticising the Labour MP's return as a member of the Commons science and technology committee, the broadcaster's editorial standards team said.