Sunday Express 19 February 2023
Anger grows at BBC over Davie's licence fee comments
Leaked comments by BBC boss Tim Davie caused outroar with Conservative politicians and the public.
Tory MPs are stepping up calls for the TV licence fee to be scrapped after BBC boss Tim Davie’s admission that the current funding arrangements are “truly amazing”.
Sir Christopher Chope, one of those pushing for a new system, said: “I agree. I think it is amazing – because it is a regressive tax on everybody, on the entire country.
“A Conservative government should have done something about it, and it still hasn’t. The liberal establishment seems to want to penalise people. It is anachronistic and the director-general seems to be conceding that.”
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Comment by Sir Christopher Chope - Conservative MP for Christchurch (on page 21 SUNDAY EXPRESS February 19, 2023)
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