I've just read that the UKIP leader has been invited to appear alongside the leaders of the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat parties in a TV debate ahead of next year's general election. Also, I see the title of the Panorama programme of October 13 was ‘The Farage Factor’.

UKIP acquires one second-hand MP and is immediately promoted to the first division in the opinion of the supposedly unbiased BBC. Why should our licence fee pay for yet more free publicity for Nigel Farage, while the excellent Green Party leader Natalie Bennett is denied the same privilege?

I found the following on the BBC website: ‘Draft general election guidelines will be published by the BBC Trust at the end of October.’ Perhaps the Trust should get a move on. A good start would be to remind Nick Robinson that UKIP is not the only political party in the UK.

Andrew Day Highworth Swindon