Chopper's Politics: BBC needs to hire right-wingers not 'metropolitan, left-wing, lentil-eating, sandal-wearing' staffers, Tory MP Philip Davies says

The BBC needs to "get out more" and hire people with different opinions to replace "Metropolitan, left-wing, lentil-eating, sandal-wearing, beard-growing" staffers, a senior Tory MP has said.

Philip Davies, a long-standing member of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee, tells today's Chopper's Politics, which you can listen to on the audio player below, that the corporation is " basically out of tune with the rest of the country".

He says: "This is just a more general sort of left-wing politically correct organisation that is basically out of tune with the rest of the country, and they're spending a hundred million pounds supposedly on diversity.

"The only diversity the BBC needs is actually some people with different opinions and don't have this sort of metropolitan, left-wing, lentil-eating, sandal-wearing, beard-growing outlook, you know, they need to get out more, that's what I always tell people at the BBC, get out more!

"Get out into the regions a bit more and find out that people don't share that politically correct view of the world."

On Chopper's Politics this week: Ex-International Development secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan on why the civil service must do better, former Attorney General Geoffrey Cox MP on why he failed to back Boris Johnson's Brexit bill and Tory MP Philip Davies on BBC bias and stars' pay.

Listen to The Telegraph's weekly political podcast, Chopper's Politics, presented by Chief Political Correspondent, Christopher Hope, on the audio player at the top of this article, and subscribe for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or your preferred podcast app.