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AT A gathering at the Labour Party conference MP Clive Lewis agreed with an audience member when they suggested the public choose the BBC director-general rather than the trustees. "An elected director-general is accountable to some degree." Lewis said. Political book of the year winner Rob Ford wondered in response: "What could possibly go wrong? Say, early front D-G runners Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Clarkson?" [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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