British Council could ‘disappear’ in a decade without financial help, boss warns

The British Council is the UK’s international organisation for cultural relations (Alamy/PA) -

The British Council could “disappear” within the next decade without urgent government intervention, the organisation’s chief executive has said.

Scott McDonald, the boss of the UK’s international organisation for cultural relations, warned the council’s presence in up to 40 countries was in jeopardy without financial guarantees from the Government.