by Jessica Jacques
BBC Political Editor Laura Kuennsberg has been allocated a bodyguard by the Corporation while she is reporting from the 2017 Labour Conference in Brighton, UK, because of threats from online trolls. They threaten her with gender-based violence and accuse her of “unfair coverage“ of the party and its leader, Jeremy Corbyn. The Times has published a photo of Kuenssberg, the BBC’s first female political editor, with a man who is a former soldier and now works as a security consultant for the BBC.
BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg
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