The BBC will not be funded from general taxation if the TV licence fee is abolished, culture secretary Lisa Nandy has said. The licence fee is “deeply regressive” and she is thinking “quite radically and creatively” about alternatives. However, using money from general taxes to fund the BBC could open up the broadcaster to interference from politicians who would hold the purse strings, she said. Nandy did not rule out a subscription model for the BBC, but said there was a “whole range” of other possible options. She said the government was “determined to grip this, and I think there is a genuine sense out there in the public that the licence fee was built for a different era”.
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