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‘There are cults with less blind loyalty’: Dorries defends PM’s Starmer smears in ‘extraordinary’ interview

Culture secretary insists PM ‘tells the truth’ when she is confronted about the false claims

The Independent UK

Nadine Dorries: Everyone is comparing culture secretary interview to a Catherine Tate sketch

‘Nadine Dorries choosing to appear as Catherine Tate on Channel 4 News. Baffling. What a time to be alive,’ joked one viewer

The Independent UK

Licence fee freeze for BBC could ‘threaten public service broadcasting’

Scottish Culture Secretary Angus Robertson wrote to his UK counterpart Nadine Dorries to raise his ‘profound concern’ about the freeze.

The Independent UK

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Cabinet ministers clash over BBC licence fee plans

Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey has hinted that she clashed in a Cabinet meeting with Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries over plans to scrap the licence fee which funds the BBC.

Evening Standard

Boris Johnson yet to receive Sue Gray report and says it’s ‘total rhubarb’ he authorised Kabul animal airlift – as it happened

Downing Street says it’s ‘hypothetically’ possible report will be published today or tomorrow; PM denies making call to airlift Pen Farthing’s animals

The Guardian - UK

BBC boss takes swipe at Nadine Dorries over BBC funding

Tim Davie says corporation facing £285m funding gap by 2027 and it is ‘not for one person to decide’ future model

The Guardian - UK

Solid or tepid? The Tory ministers still defending Boris Johnson

A core group of cabinet ministers are continuing to back PM – some more vehemently than others

The Guardian - UK

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‘2022 set to be blockbuster year’ for inbound tourism, claims Nadine Dorries

VisitBritain currently forecasts 24 million inbound visitors to the UK this year, down 41 per cent from 2019 levels

The Independent UK

Nadine Dorries mocks ‘ticket tout’ David Cameron

Culture secretary’s tweet comes almost a decade after then PM suspended Dorries over her stint on I’m a Celebrity

The Guardian - UK

Nadine Dorries pokes fun at viral David Cameron photo with ticket tout warning

The Culture Secretary made an odd dig at her old boss – then tweeted in support of the incumbent PM

The Independent UK

Children’s TV makers say British shows could die as ministers scrap £44m fund

Nadine Dorries urged to restore help for UK broadcasters competing with global rivals

The Guardian - UK

In the name of God, let Sue Gray do her job

No cause for concern about partygate and Operation Red Meat. Why? Because a very senior civil servant is on the case…

The Guardian - UK

Pensioners left 'bitterly disappointed' at Tory Nadine Dorries in TV licence row

Older people's group Silver Voices lashed out at the controversial Culture Secretary in the latest development in the over-75s' free licences dispute

Daily Mirror

The fightback starts now! Here’s how the BBC can survive the Tory assault

Its flagship shows are looking shaky, its branding is blurred and its payroll is bloated. But as Nadine Dorries and Boris Johnson close in on the BBC, there are ways the Corporation can emerge from this crisis stronger and freer

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The Guardian - UK

The BBC is so much more than a subplot in the Tory soap opera

Progressives must do more than just try to save institutions from the wreckers, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

Wales Online

'Swinging cuts are inevitable' The future of S4C and BBC Radio Cymru as licence fee frozen

UK culture secretary Nadine Dorries said that she recognised that S4C had a "unique critical role" in promoting the Welsh language

The Conversation

BBC licence fee – could scrapping it be the end of public service broadcasting in the UK?

UK culture secretary, Nadine Dorries, recently announced that the BBC’s licence fee is to be frozen for two years and that a new funding mechanism for the corporation will follow after 2027. This statement created shockwaves within the media industry and beyond. Many accused the government’s move of being sheer…

The Independent UK

Scottish minister hits out at ‘ideologically-driven’ attack on BBC

UK Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has indicated there could be a different funding model put in place for the corporation after 2024.

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Tory councillor brands BBC licence fee freeze as 'insulting' way to cut cost of living

The Government said it was moving to support families in the face of rising living costs

Daily Record

We cannot let Tory minister Nadine Dorries ruin the BBC to save Boris's skin

The Conservative Culture Secretary's war on the licence fee is putting one of our greatest institutions at risk - all for the sake of protecting the hapless Prime Minister, writes Annie Brown.

Evening Standard

Licence fee: There is a debate to be had about BBC funding — but not to save Boris Johnson

We have been here before — and not long ago. When Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries tweeted on Sunday that “[t]his licence fee announcement will be the last”, she was renewing a battle against the BBC that was last fought by the Government two years ago. Reprimanded by Speaker Sir Lindsay…

Irish Mirror

Will the RTE license fee be scrapped like the BBC one in the UK? Top producers and RTE respond

Exclusive: The UK's Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has said the next announement of the BBC licence fee "will be the last".

The Independent UK

‘Frontline output’ will be affected by licence fee freeze, BBC boss says

Nadine Dorries has announced that the BBC licence fee will be frozen at £159 for two years.

The Independent UK

BBC funding freeze has ‘serious consequences’ for Welsh public broadcasting

Plaid Cymru MP Ben Lake condemned the Government’s move.

Glasgow Live

BBC TV licence to be frozen at £159 for next two years, UK Government announces

The TV licence fee is set to be frozen after a debate was had on the future of the fee. Arguments were made in support of a subscription like service as models such as Netflix.

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