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Did the BBC deliberately use the wrong footage of Johnson?
If they did, then that would be an unforgivable propaganda stunt of North-Korean proportions, writes BEN COWLES
t) Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn, Prime Minister Boris Johnson and former prime ministers Theresa May and David Cameron during the Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph memorial in Whitehall, yesterday

PRIME MINISTER Boris Johnson made several minor gaffes during yesterday’s Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph in Whitehall, such as stepping out of line too early, looking somewhat hungover and laying his poppy wreath upside down.

Normally, such a trivial topic wouldn’t be worth writing about.

Perhaps a better use of everyone’s time would be focusing on how Europe’s ruling class sent millions of men and women to die in a hail of bullets, bayonets, barbed wire, bombs and chlorine gas for a few extra miles of mud during the first world war. 

Hi @BBCNews. Could you please explain the editorial decision to use this footage of Boris Johnson laying a wreath in 2016 on this morning's news bulletin instead of footage from yesterday's service?#BBCBreakfast #BorisJohnson pic.twitter.com/bzyw1bktx7

— The Horse from Horsin' Around (@bojack70552409) November 11, 2019
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