The BBC was involved in a fresh row over its flagship Question Time programme on Friday when it was accused of disregarding public opinion in a line-up of panellists set to discuss the war in Afghanistan.
The current affairs programme will be broadcast next week from Wootton Bassett, the Wiltshire town where bodies of British soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan have passed through in recent years. The panel will include former British army head General Sir Richard Dannatt, armed forces minister Bill Rammell, shadow foreign secretary William Hague, former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan and Salma Yaqoob from Respect.
Stop the War Coalition convener Lindsey German said it was quite incredible that the BBC was repeating the mistakes of its coverage of the Iraq war.