Tim Davie, the BBC’s Director-General, has said the broadcaster needs “a really serious dialogue with government” in the context of Nadine Dorries replacing Oliver Dowden as the UK’s new Culture Secretary.Dorries has been an outspoken critic of the BBC in the past.
In 2018 she tweeted that the broadcaster was “a biased leftwing organisation which is seriously failing in its political representation, from the top down” and in 2014 she wrote a blog in which she described the license fee as “a tax on the ownership of a television” and “a completely outdated concept”.The MP will now be charged with agreeing the next license fee agreement with the BBC, but Davie remained sanguine when asked how he felt about the prospect, though he did note that
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