The BBC is cutting hundreds of jobs across its core news division next week. New director general Matt Brittin making his presence known…
According to the FT the BBC is beginning the first phase of a wider downsizing expected to total around 2,000 job losses. All departments have been ordered to cut around a tenth of their costs…
The BBC has also imposed group-wide controls on recruitment, travel, consultancies, conferences and events. BBC News is losing staff first. The downsizing comes as the BBC enters the final months of funding talks with ministers, who are weighing a new form of licence fee, potentially extended to private streaming services like Netflix. You can’t hate these guys enough…
Krishnan Guru-Murthy asked John Healey: “Just finally, I mean Andy Burnham has been very clear he wants Britain back in the European Union in his lifetime. Do you?”
The Chancellor replied: “I’m older than Andy Burnham. I don’t expect to see that.”