Lisa Nandy is considering extending the £180 licence fee to cover streaming services like Netflix and YouTube. A YouTube Tax just to keep the prehistoric BBC ticking over…
Both the Telegraph and the Independent were handed the story, so the government is clearly flying a kite on this. The Independent adds that the cash raised would go towards local journalism and “tackling misinformation, which has fuelled the rise of parties such as Reform UK“. A tax on Disney+ to fund a crackdown on political opposition…
The proposal could appear in Nandy’s White Paper on BBC funding, due before Christmas. Licence sales fell by 539,000 last year to 23.3 million, almost two million fewer than five years ago. And just yesterday, the BBC gleefully announced it would stream BBC News live on YouTube. Where there’s smoke…
Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock was asked if Burnham will take Britain back into the EU:
“Yes, sure – his commitment is authentic. He really does understand from the grassroots up why restoring what I think of as normality in our continent is vital for every party economically, politically, culturally, in terms of security, and he’s able to articulate it in language that people can understand. So yeah, he is definitely”.