To me it sounds like damage control lawyer speak: "Only admit what you can't deny any longer".

None of this is new information, only that you were called a 'conspiracy theorist' for bringing these up until now and at the risk of being ostracized, just like with the 'lab-origin' theory. Doesn't exactly inspire trust in BBC reporting when journalists could have asked these exact same questions 6 months or more ago, unless the reporting was suppressed on purpose.

You have to wonder what else will be admitted as true and if they will throw Dr. Fauci under the bus eventually.