With the race to replace Boris Johnson as next UK Prime Minister now down to the final two, bosses at BBC New Broadcasting House and Channel 4 Horseferry Road will be examining former Chancellor Ri…
Both broadcasters took a battering from Johnson’s firebrand Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries, via a recently announced review into the future of the BBC licence fee and, more existentially, legislation to privatize Channel 4. The pubcasters will now be hoping these drastic moves can be reversed.reported last week that Sunak has said in private that he would be willing to scrap the £159 per year annual licence fee and look to alternative funding models when the BBC Charter expires in 2027.
Since the war in Ukraine started, Truss has, however, taken the time to praise BBC News on several occasions for its ability to inform and counter fake news narratives from state-sponsored organizations such as Russia’s RT.in communicating to the Russian people,” she said during a recent debate.Today The candidates have kept their public powder dry on Channel 4 privatization so far.
He has raised no public objections to the move, although may want to listen to recent polling that put Channel 4 privatization bottom of the list of Conservative voters’ priorities. The candidate who almost pipped Truss to the final two, Penny Mordaunt, was generally seen as the most likely to reverse privatization and had praised the broadcaster in parliament before.
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