Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries' fury at Nick Robison after he told PM to ...

Cabinet minister Nadine Dorries has called on the BBC to put forward plans to tackle impartiality after Boris Johnson was told to 'stop talking' during a heated debate with presenter Nick Robinson.

The culture secretary, who took over from Oliver Dowden in the Cabinet reshuffle in September, was left angered by Mr Robinson exchange with the Prime Minister on Radio 4's Today programme - which sparked 558 Ofcom complaints this month.

The heated interview saw the MP for Mid-Bedforshire tell allies: 'Nick Robinson has cost the BBC a lot of money', The Times reports. 

It comes as Ms Dorries, whose appointment comes amid ongoing talks with the broadcaster about what level the licence fee should be set at for the next five years,  recently told BBC bosses to address bias and elitism within the corporation.

During her first meeting with Tim Davie, the BBC’s director-general, and the corporation's chairman Richard Sharp last moth the culture secretary is understood to have called for reforms and a greater monitoring of the balance of news programmes within the corporation.

A source told The Times: 'They were both stunned and gulped down their tea. They thought she was just going to roll over.' 

It comes as the BBC revealed it had received 558 objections on the grounds of bias over the heated Radio 4’s Today show between the Prime Minster and Nick Robinson earlier this month.      

The interview at the Conservative conference in Manchester immediately got off to a tense start, with Mr Robinson saying how long it had been since Mr Johnson was last on the show, prompting him to cheekily reply 'has it really been that long?'

During the interview, Mr Johnson was interrupted during a long-winded answer on the supply chain crisis by Mr Robinson, who told him: 'Prime Minister, you are going to pause. 

'Prime Minister, stop talking,

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