Huw Edwards gets a dressing down over museum portrait row by BBC bosses

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BBC News presenter Huw Edwards is ‘being spoken to’ by bosses after he wrote that he felt ‘uneasy’ about a museum removing a portrait of an Army general due to his links to slavery.

A picture of Sir Thomas Picton was taken down this week after more than 100 years on display at the National Museum Wales.

The museum said the image – which labelled the slave owner a hero – was removed to ‘re-frame’ his legacy.

But in response to the move, the BBC’s News at Ten host, who last year was paid up to £429,999, wrote on Twitter: ‘As a journalist I feel uneasy about this element

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