BBC are 'wrong' and insensitive to broadcast book about Margaret Thatcher's assassination, Tory MP says

Hilary Mantel is a bitter and barren Leftist blob.  Will she also write a story about Tony Blair being assassinated?  And would the BBC air it?  I think we know those answers

BBC bosses are under fire over plans to broadcast a controversial story imagining the assassination of Margaret Thatcher.

Tory backbencher Nadine Dorries said the former prime minster's family are still "grieving" from her passing last year and said the Corporation should have "taken stock" of their pain.

It comes amid outrage that BBC Radio 4 has picked Hilary Mantel's controversial new novel for serialisation in its prestigious Book At Bedtime slot.

The Booker Prize winner's new book, titled The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, has been criticised for insensitivity over imagining the former Tory leader's murder so recently after her death.

Mrs Dorries said that the BBC "has a responsibility to the people who pay its license fee", adding that she would think the same if a book about Tony Blair's death was broadcast by the Corporation.

She added: "I think because Margaret Thatcher's death is so recent and her family are still grieving, I think the BBC should just have taken stock of that.  "I think they've made the wrong decision, they should have been a little bit more sensitive. She added: "Maybe in a few years time, but just not now."

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