Jeremy Clarkson accuses BBC of being ‘up itself’ and claims he would run it better by not being politically correct

Jeremy Clarkson: 'If I ran the BBC, it would be better'
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Ella Wills8 January 2019
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Jeremy Clarkson has accused the BBC of being "up itself" and claimed he would run it better by not being politically correct.

The Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? presenter said the corporation only caters for a narrow demographic as he criticised his former employer.

“If I ran the BBC, it would be better. I’d make programmes for everybody, not just seven people in Islington,” he told the Radio Times.

He was responding to a question about whether terrestrial TV was falling behind online streaming services such as Amazon.

Clarkson said: "It’s become so up itself, suffocating the life out of everything with its nonsense need to be politically correct.

"If they’d let everyone relax, and made a show that’s entertaining or interesting or informative or any of the things that the BBC is supposed to be, then we’d be having a different debate about the future of television."

He added: "I had a very happy time at the BBC and I care very much about it.

"I’d be sad if it got knackered by a few unwise Corbynites.”

Clarkson left the BBC in 2015 after he was axed as a presenter on motoring show Top Gear.

He is set to release the third series of his Prime Video show The Grand Tour on January 18.

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