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Is BBC News left or right?

Centre-ground. We place BBC News at -1 on a scale from −10 (left) to +10 (right).

Left −10CentreRight +10

What it actually covers

The share of BBC News’s politics stories touching each subject, divided by the share across every masthead we read. 2.0× means twice the attention the press as a whole gave it.

Measured across 360 stories over 30 days, 2026-08-29 to 2026-10-02.

Covered more than the press average

  • Housing2.0×

    15 stories · 4% of its output, against 2% across the press

  • Kemi Badenoch1.2×

    33 stories · 9% of its output, against 7% across the press

  • The Conservatives1.2×

    33 stories · 9% of its output, against 7% across the press

Covered less than the press average

  • Russia0.2×

    2 stories · 1% of its output, against 2% across the press

  • NHS & health0.6×

    7 stories · 2% of its output, against 3% across the press

  • Europe & the ECHR0.6×

    7 stories · 2% of its output, against 3% across the press

What BBC News is running now

Every masthead we read

All of them, on one scale

One email each morning

See the split every morning

The day's stories as the left and the right each told them, in one email before breakfast.

We’ll ask for your constituency and year of birth next. Both optional, and the year only so we know readers are 13 or over.

We are not affiliated with BBC News and this page is not endorsed by them. Headlines and thumbnails are theirs and link back to their site. Coverage figures are counted from their own politics feed once a day; the placement is ours and the method is at how we work.