Clarkson’s comments about Meghan have no place on ITV

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He said he hated her “on a cellular level” and dreamed of the day “when she would be forced to walk naked through the streets of every city in Britain while the crowd chanted ‘Shame! ‘”. Throw lumps of excrement on them.

Mr Nicholson, the SNP’s shadow spokesperson for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, has written to Ms McCall to say that Clarkson’s column contradicts ITV’s statement on the programme’s policy and strategy for social purposes.

“ITV has no editorial control over Jeremy Clarkson’s independent journalistic productions at The Sun or anywhere else he chooses to publish them,” McCall wrote in her response.

“I would like to clarify that the comments made are those of Jeremy Clarkson and are in no way endorsed by ITV.”

She stressed that Clarkson is not an employee of ITV, and added that “when he appears on ITV it is like a quiz show host on a program that does not provide a platform for his views”.

When Clarkson’s column was published in December, Kevin Lego, ITV’s managing director of media and entertainment, said the show’s position “for now” was to keep him as host.

“I don’t know what he was thinking when he wrote that. He said.

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