On 28/11/18, the BBC stated, from a report by the Bank of England, thus

“A no deal Brexit would send the pound plunging and trigger a worse recession than the financial crisis, the Bank of England has warned.”

(Grumpy;s emphasis) It then went on to say, a few lines later

“This Bank’s scenario is not what it expects to happen, but represents a worst-case scenario, based on a so called “disorderly Brexit”.

A short while later, the page was changed by the  BBC to add obvious conditionality to the headline statement, after which it read

“A no-deal Brexit could send the pound plunging and trigger a worse recession than the financial crisis, the Bank of England has warned.”

The BBC is supposed to be the premier, world class, media body in the UK. In this case, it seems to have been nobbled by May’s Brexit fear team; read the first  version again – it has no conditionality, and unambiguously their report states that a no deal WOULD result in the outcome stated. This is entirely and wholly at odds with the statement lower down which makes it clear that this outcome, far  from being certain, or even likely, is not actually expected at all by the Bank, and is a worst case scenario.

Did someone complain? Or did a more experienced senior editor spot  what at best was an  inconsistency, or at worst a breach of the BBC’s implicit duty to report news impartially and without political bias?