They're sure it could never have happened. Their conspiratorial view of the world tells them the BBC would never let it, because the BBC, as we all know, was Blairite before Blair, a den of progressives from way back. I think this is a false analysis, but one which points some of the way towards the answer to their own question. I don't think so. The reasons tell one something about the state of the right, and of the press that makes them famous.
Most rightist commentators are polemicists above all else.
There's a rage about them that speaks against a world permanently stacked the other way. It may be a strange legacy of two decades that were defined by the rightist triumph of Thatcherism, but the right still speaks from the bunker of the dispossessed. In some ways, it produces more fiery and therefore more readable journalism than the left, but most of it is a long way from attempting to tease out the truth of what is actually happening. That's not the right's game. It is nourished, moreover, by proprietors with a similar mentality.