R ap group Kneecap were "placed in a higher category of risk" than Bob Vylan by the BBC, prior to its coverage of the Glastonbury festival, according to a letter from the corporation's director general Tim Davie to a committee of MPs.

Bob Vylan has been dropped from a European tour after the controversy caused by their performance at the Glastonbury festival. The British punk-rap duo were accused of anti-Semitism after leading chants of “death, death to the IDF”, referring to the Israeli army, and “free, free Palestine” at this year’s festival.