The Conservatives have “no plans” to change the way the BBC Chair is appointed, according to the Transport Secretary.
Ministers shouldn’t engage in the underhanded tactics used by the Left, and should instead wield its popular mandate for legislative reform before they lose their chance.
The organisation has “perception challenges” over its closeness to the Government says the Shadow Culture Secretary.
Labour like to say we are the only major economy whose GDP has not recovered to prepandemic levels. But looking at GDP at constant prices in national currency the UK economy in 2022, according to the IMF, was one per cent bigger than in 2019.
By publishing the Lockdown Files, Isabel Oakshott’s has exposed the complicity of much of our media class in the mishandling of the pandemic.
He accuses Tories of being ‘snowflake MPs waging war on free speech’; Sunak says he is indulging in “the usual political opportunism”.
By trying to remove a popular presenter from his job for speaking out on a political issue, the right is unnecessarily weakening itself in an argument it needs to win.
Having a national broadcaster that integrates the country is increasingly difficult if that country is far more divided along lines of faith, race, politics, values, and half a dozen other qualities than it was a century ago.
The Tories of the 2030s will need to make a complete clean break with the 1980s. We can think new ideas – and return to older ones to conserve and protect the institutions that make up the social fabric of this country.
There is a big difference between accepting that the UK has a responsibility to see she faces justice and arguing that she “needs saving”.
“Collective responsibility, fortunately, is not retrospective”, says the Development Minister.
Sophy Ridge presses the Housing Secretary on the former Prime Minister’s relationship with the chairman of the BBC.
When a minister comes under attack from the parliamentary lobby, petty allegations are treated as monstrous crimes.
Some Tory members would see such a development as nothing less than an establishment coup: as a conspiracy of bad actors working together to win revenge for Brexit.
Seoul built a strong technical base, and then concentrated state support on producers with proven commercial and global appeal.