Boris Johnson's attack on BBC is a threat to essential public service broadcasting – Angus Robertson MSP

By Angus Robertson
Published 18th Jan 2022, 12:30 BST
Boris Johnson's government has launched a full-frontal funding attack on the BBC (Picture: Tolga Akmen/pool via AP)Boris Johnson's government has launched a full-frontal funding attack on the BBC (Picture: Tolga Akmen/pool via AP)
Boris Johnson's government has launched a full-frontal funding attack on the BBC (Picture: Tolga Akmen/pool via AP)
Public service broadcasting is essential for any functioning democratic society.

Its journalists are free to hold decision-makers to account and programme-makers produce varied output which would often not be found from the commercial competition.

Usually public service broadcasters get it in the neck from people on all sides at some stage, but in general they get the balance about right.

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Just as Boris Johnson has been exposed to the last doubters as a lying, incompetent and corrupt Prime Minister, his government has launched a full-frontal funding attack on the BBC.