Miles believes progress on the issue has been made following the discussions.
In a statement released via the ECB website Flower stated that no firm ultimatum on the issue has been made.
The issue has been made complex by a host of small problems and competing imperatives, overlaid (in some cases) by remuneration arrangements that encourage bad practice.
The issue has been made a priority by the corporation's recently appointed director of strategy and digital, James Purnell, and BBC director general Tony Hall.
But thorny as that issue has been made to appear, Congress last week found a way to solve it for that most portable of devices, the cellular telephone.
By and large, each time an issue has been made a racial one, this has been an excuse either to mishandle it with preferences, or to leave it to one side.
In any event, no progress on this issue has been made in the Trump Administration, and anyone looking for the President's true feelings on racial issues need only study his reaction to the Roseanne Barr controversy earlier this week.
Mr Hain's campaign accepts that most of the running on the issue has been made by Jon Cruddas, the only backbencher in the race, but says his idea goes beyond the consensus about the need for more social housing.
Editor's Note: This is the fourth in a series of posts drawn from articles in a newly published special issue of Journal of Peace Research on "Communication, Information, and Political Conflict". The entire special issue has been made available by Sage Publications here.
