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They didn't "edit out political speeches", they edited out entire awards being given, specifically only the ones where the winners mentioned Gaza.
Meanwhile, plenty of other speeches mentioned other political topics, as that's entirely common for award winners to mention when giving a speech. And all of those were aired without issue.
Did any of the other speeches that were shown have the speakers holding up posters
If your point is that the existence of the poster is what made the BBC cut the entire award-giving for that person you're reinforcing the point that it was weirdly censored.
Given the BBC’s charter requirement for impartiality, and given that this was a light entertainment programme rather than a news programme, I don’t think it’s that weird at all.
Impartiality doesn't mean you need to avoid even presenting the main facts of an event because a person in that event expressed a point of view.
That would be impractical.
We saw plenty of political statements at the BAFTAs last year.
Personally I agree with OP that cutting somone altogether this year was weird, you don't; I'll agree to disagree.