Off Location
Property Rights: Ofcom have cleared Channel 4 property series, Location, Location, Location of political bias after presenters Phil Spencer and ex-Tory party advisor Kirstie Allsopp launched a campaign to get stamp duty reformed.
In an episode broadcast in June the pair suggested that stamp duty was a contributing factor to the slowdown in the property market and that it should be changed to ease the current financial problems.
Ofcom received 15 viewer complaints about the show, which said it had been biased and had been used by the presenters to present their own political opinions. In particular, some of the complaints claimed
Kirstie Allsopp was allowed to give her partial views on stamp duty.
C4 defended the show noting that part of the show featured an interview with an independent financial adviser who discussed Stamp Duty and listed the Labour had already made to the system.
The regulator also noted that the viewpoint of all the main political parties were including across three programmes.
The regulator ruled the show had not broken its code.
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