Channel 4's Smuggled criticised as insensitive in wake of lorry deaths

Home Office hits out at decision to broadcast programme so soon after Essex tragedyThe Home Office has criticised Channel 4 as “insensitive and irresponsible” after the broadcaster said a programme in which contestants attempt to “smuggle” themselves into the UK would go ahead less than a fortnight after the Essex migrant tragedy.The screening of the first episode of Smuggled, a two-part series billed by Channel 4 as “the largest test of our borders ever conducted by the media”, was postponed last week after the bodies of 39 people were found inside a lorry container on an industrial estate in Grays. Continue reading…
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