Amol Rajan warns BBC destined to shrink at ‘accelerating rate’

Amol Rajan announced earlier this year that he was leaving BBC News to ‘unleash my inner entrepreneur’ in the creator economy. Photograph: Aled Llywelyn/Alamy

The outgoing Today programme presenter Amol Rajan has warned that the BBC is destined to “get smaller at an accelerating rate”, as he prepares to depart for a new project on YouTube.

Rajan, who announced earlier this year that he was leaving BBC News to “unleash my inner entrepreneur” in the creator economy, said he was making the shift to ensure he was not “behind the curve”.