Unbiased EU facts are in short supply at gov.uk

SIR – The government services website, gov.uk, currently displays the message: “On Thursday June 23 there will be a vote on the UK’s membership of the European Union.” There is also a link to advice on why we should remain in the EU.

Surely it is wrong that the Government is using this website – which is designed to provide facts for the public – to advertise only one view on such a complex issue. Peter Dimery Newport, Monmouthshire SIR – Are BBC interviewers impartial when questioning politicians on the EU referendum? Can we measure impartiality?

Perhaps a starting point is to consider whether a politician is allowed to answer questions without interruption.

To this end, the BBC should produce an Interviewer Interruption Index. This would measure the length of the interview and count the number of times when the interviewer speaks while the politician is still talking.

For example, consider John Humphrys’s interview with Iain Duncan Smith on Monday, which lasted 14 minutes and 14 seconds and contained 47 interruptions.

This gives an Interviewer Interruption Index of 18 (an interruption on average every 18 seconds). C J Banham Norwich