Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has made another embarrassing gaffe — wrongly telling a radio host that Channel 5 was "privatised a small number of years ago".
Speaking about a government White Paper aimed at privatising Channel 4, the Conservative minister praised Channel 5 in an interview with LBC. She told presenter Iain Dale that Channel 5 had brought strong regional investment since it was "privatised".
Ms Dorries said: "Do you know who has done that really well since they were privatised a small number of years ago, I think it was three years ago, five years ago maybe? Channel 5. If you look at the amount of investment Channel 5 puts into the regions and how well Channel 5 has done since it was privatised, I think that's a model. I call Channel 5 a levelling-up broadcaster."
