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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
David Lynch

Culture Secretary’s BBC licence fee reforms branded ‘unpatriotic’ by Labour MPs

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The Culture Secretary has been accused of being unpatriotic over plans to reform how the BBC is funded.

Nadine Dorries also told an SNP MP he had treated God Save The Queen as a “dirty word” when he jibed about Government proposals that the BBC should play it at the end of each day.

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