Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectators' Daily Politics podcast. I'm

Isabelle Hardman and this is the Sunday Roundup.

The newspapers were heavily focused today on the allegations that a BBC presenter had

paid a 17-year-old for sexually explicit photos. The mother of the victim has claimed that

the presenter in question stayed on air for weeks after the complaint was made. The shadow

chance the Rachel Reeves told Sophie Ridge that this scandal went beyond the BBC and that

investigations into these matters needed to happen more efficiently.

It's deeply concerning. The idea that some presenters think that they act with impunity and

they can get away with these sorts of things. It does call into question the ethics, the

investigations, how long these things take and the BBC but also other broadcasters do need

to get a grip because we seem to lurch from one scandal to another and more needs to be done.

The timing is important, isn't it? Because according to this woman, she complains the BBC

in May, but the presenter in question then stayed on air for weeks. I think that's the concerning

thing that someone makes a complaint, a very serious complaint and then puts on the

telly the next night and they're still there and that's not good enough. That is not treating

people, victims with respect and that's why there needs to be a full investigation. But I think

this goes beyond the BBC. We had stories of, was it last month about Philip Scofield and

you know, there may be more to come, who knows. But the investigations, but also the standards

need to be reformed and looked at again. What do you mean by that? The standards need to be

reformed and looked at again. Well, the investigations need to be much swifter. Action needs to be taken

quicker when there are serious complaints like this. But the standards that which presenters

operate just need to be much, much higher. No one should be able to get away with this sort of

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