Culture secretary plays down reports BBC critics were offered top jobs
Sep 27, 2020
Oliver Dowden declines to confirm reports PM has offered Charles Moore and Paul Dacre BBC and Ofcom rolesHardline BBC critics reportedly offered top media rolesThe culture secretary, Oliver Dowden, has declined to confirm a report that two close allies of Boris Johnson could be parachuted in to head the BBC and Ofcom, but argued that the BBC needed to expand its scope beyond “narrow, metropolitan areas” of the UK.
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