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The group said that it had analysed 236 tweets by Mr Goodall in the first week of October.
A new ‘bias’ row broke out last night over claims that some of the BBC’s top journalists are twice as likely to write or share Twitter posts critical of the Government than any other single subject.
The claims come as the BBC starts the process of selecting a successor to political editor Laura Kuenssberg, who is in talks about moving to Radio 4’s Today programme.
The Campaign For Common Sense, which champions ‘free speech and tolerance’, claims that its analysis of one week of posts by some of the BBC’s biggest names ‘reveals a fascination with the issues of identity politics, a lingering mistrust of Brexit and an anti-Government bias’.
One of the journalists studied was Newsnight’s policy editor Lewis Goodall, who is seen as a contender for Ms Kuenssberg’s job.
The Campaign For Common Sense, which champions ‘free speech and tolerance’, claims that its analysis of one week of posts, including that of Lewis Goodall's, who is seen as a contender for Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg's job
The group said that it had analysed 236 tweets by Mr Goodall in the first week of October.
It said 41 were
