UK has freezed BBC all funding for 2 years

The United Kingdom government got here underneath fire on Monday for freezing the BBC licence price, with critics accusing it of a politically influenced assault to shop the prime minister's process.

The Conservatives' tradition Secretary Nadine Dorries said the £159 annual charge would be fixed for two years till 2024, then upward push in step with inflation for the subsequent 4.

She justified the investment reduce, which BBC bosses known as "disappointing," as had to ease value of dwelling pressures on cash-strapped families and mirror a converted media landscape.

but competition parties stated the monthly payments for all television set proprietors -- equivalent to £13.thirteen a month -- was small change as compared to looming tax rises and hovering energy bills totalling thousands of kilos a year.

Labour's media spokeswoman Lucy Powell said the authorities changed into searching for to appease critics of Boris Johnson, whose position is in jeopardy due to revelations approximately lockdown-breaking events at Downing street.

"Is the licence charge in reality on the coronary heart of the fee-of-dwelling crisis or is this really approximately their lengthy-time period vendetta towards the BBC?" she requested in parliament.

"it's at the coronary heart of Operation red meat to stop the high minister turning into lifeless meat," she delivered, referring to a stated authorities combat-returned plan of populist measures to reinforce Johnson's status.

The BBC, which marks its centenary later this year, has come below growing claims from right-wingers because the united kingdom's divisive Brexit referendum in 2016 for political bias, and pushing a "woke," London-centric liberal time table.

but the public provider broadcaster, founded with the aid of Royal constitution and operating independently of presidency, has confronted comparable accusations from the political left.

Critics accused Dorries, a Johnson loyalist who leaked info of the plan on Twitter on Sunday night time after a torrid week for the prime minister, of "cultural vandalism" and wrecking a international-renowned British group.

Dorries has formerly accused the BBC of "tokenism" in range hiring and elitist "institution suppose" however denied she desired to dismantle the organisation.