The BBC’s political editor traveled across the UK over the last few weeks to ensure the election was covered extensively and shared almost every moment with her 1.1 million Twitter followers. But last week she shared a video that appeared to show a man walking into a demonstrator’s arm as he pointed at Matt Hancock’s departing car. Earlier, it had been claimed that the man, an adviser to Mr Hancock, had been assaulted, but video footage soon emerged to show this claim was wrong.
Ms Kuenssberg quickly deleted the tweet and issued an apology.
She was said to have been left tearful by the error, according to the Daily Mail.
But this didn’t stop Corbynistas then taking this opportunity to treat the tweet as evidence of bias.
On Friday, one social media user tweeted: “Not sure what was most depressing… waking up this morning to a massive Tory majority or the realisation that K***sberg still has a f****** job at the BBC.”
Another person wrote: “Signing off from this c**** propaganda… the day will come when we can all cheer when she’s gone.”
Ms Kuenssberg has said she no longer looks at Twitter comments, however.
She said: “I stopped long ago.
“It’s not like a bully will go and pull someone’s pigtails in order to make them cry and then be satisfied with that.
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Ms Kuenssberg said that while parties are not supposed to look at voting papers when they are verified – but not counted – at opening sessions, they do “get a hint” of how they are doing.
She said: “The forecast is that it’s going to be wet and cold tomorrow, the postal votes, of course, have already arrived.
“The parties – they’re not meant to look at it, but they do kind of get a hint – and on both sides people are telling me that the postal votes that are in are looking pretty grim for Labour in a lot of parts of the country.
“Of course postal voters tend to skew to elderly voters and people who vote early… but the kind of younger generation who we know skew much more to the Labour Party you might expect to turn out to the polls tomorrow.
“But in this winter election, turnout is just another one of these factors that we just can’t predict.”
The video of her remarks, made during an interview on the BBC’s Politics Live programme, was widely shared on social media and appeared to provoke a response from the Electoral Commission.
In a statement on Twitter, the watchdog said: “It may be an offence to communicate any information obtained at postal vote opening sessions, including about votes cast, before a poll has closed.
“Anyone with information to suggest this has happened should report it immediately to the police.”
Party candidates and agents can observe postal votes being verified, but the ballot papers are placed face down and not counted until polls close on election day.
