Jon Holmes has spoken up about being axed from Radio 4's The Now Show because it was felt the programme needed more "diversity".

This morning the Mail on Sunday ran a front page story with a picture of Holmes and the headline of: "BBC sacked me for being a white man."

The piece went on to discuss the fact that Holmes had been dropped because the show was being recast with “more women and diversity” . Fellow long-time contributor Mitch Benn was also dropped from the programme this week.