in the united kingdom, bloomberg television was severely reprimanded for breach of ofcom rules during the 2005 uk national (general) election. bloomberg was found to have shown pro-labour party bias. this occurred because of a breach of british law. in the run up to a general election, television channels must provide equal time to all major political parties. bloomberg covered the release by the labour party of their so-called "business manifesto", but did not provide counterbalancing air time to the conservatives or liberal democrats.