THE HEAD OF THE BBC has refused a request by 120 MPs to use the phrase ‘Daesh’ instead of ‘Islamic State’ in news coverage.

Tony Hall, director general, said it would ‘bias their coverage’. MP Chris Grayling, the leader of the House of Commons, compared the decision to being impartial towards Nazis during the Second World War.

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