There are exceptions to the supposed balanced rule which ensures bias. For example, when the "science is settled" (which is how they shutdown any critique of the Covid-19 vaccines or climate change) or if the opposing argument would cause unrest and harm social cohesion (such as reporting on the "grooming gangs" which goes against the Police line or putting across any counter-argument which sympathises with why people joined the civil unrest last summer).
and to make myself sound like a stuck rrecord, OFCOMS job is to to make these news outlets reporting balanced but they do the opposite.
There are exceptions to the supposed balanced rule which ensures bias. For example, when the "science is settled" (which is how they shutdown any critique of the Covid-19 vaccines or climate change) or if the opposing argument would cause unrest and harm social cohesion (such as reporting on the "grooming gangs" which goes against the Police line or putting across any counter-argument which sympathises with why people joined the civil unrest last summer).