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Anger and shock over BBC’s ‘offensive’ welfare documentary

Outraged campaigners have attacked the BBC for screening an “offensive” documentary about the benefits system.
Campaigners say that the documentary – presented by the veteran BBC journalist John Humphrys – was “shockingly poor” and little better than “propaganda” for the government’s welfare reforms.
The BBC has received 136 complaints about the programme, of which “about 45” mentioned [...]