SIR - At the last meeting of the Parliamentary European Scrutiny Committee, repeated on BBC Parliament, they interviewed at length Sir Ivan Rogers, former Permanent Representative of the UK to the EU.

The civil servant gained national notoriety when BBC1 News headlined a major report that Sir Ivan had stated publicly that in his experienced opinion it would take the UK government ten years to extricate from the EU following Brexit. His supposed neutrality was shattered, thus his resignation followed quickly.

He was quizzed by MPs from both the Leave and Remain persuasion, but the most relevant question came from Committee Chairman Sir Bill Cash MP, who asked Sir Ivan, did he actually admit that he had used the words “ten years to quit the EU?”

His answer was “No”. Bill Cash pursued the matter, if he had not officially made that inflammatory statement, had he said similar off the record with journalists or at social occasions? Same reply “No.” This info trans-lates into false news broadcast by BBC News.

It highlights the regular bias of the public broadcaster, funded by TV licence holders. It is time to strip the BBC of its Charter, forc-ing it to stand on its own commercial feet.

Alan Chapman, Beck Lane, Bingley