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Published 21:05 4 Nov 2018 GMT
Updated 21:08 4 Nov 2018 GMT
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Banks, who calls himself a 'bad boy of Brexit,' has been the focus of intense speculation about the legality of anti-EU campaigning and the Brexit vote as whole. Vote Leave, the designated campaign during the referendum, has been proven to break spending rules.
Reporting for The Observer, Carole Cadwalladr is drawing connections between Banks, Russia and election manipulation by big data companies like Cambridge Analytica.
She, and many others, said the BBC should not be giving Banks a 'platform' by interviewing him.
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Rob Burley, editor of the BBC's live political programming, defended the interview - as he regularly does to one side of the divide or the other, depending on who's on.
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