They are only required to provide "balanced" coverage during an election, nothing more. The BBC is absolutely biased, as was made clear during the 2014 Scottish Independence referendum. The distortions and outright lies they continually produced were astonishing to me.
You can see plenty examples of this at Wings Over Scotland (which I know is biased, but is also scrupulously accurate)
You can see plenty examples of this at Wings Over Scotland (which I know is biased, but is also scrupulously accurate)