Tories target BBC charter
12 April 2012
A Conservative government could "rip up" the BBC's current Royal Charter to change the way the corporation is run, the shadow culture secretary said today.
Jeremy Hunt said the Tories would block Labour plans to force the BBC to share its licence fee revenue. But he added that the BBC Trust should be replaced. "We do think the structure...has failed," he told the FT. "We are looking into whether it would be appropriate to rip up the charter."
He said he wanted to ensure that the BBC's dominance did not stifle the commercial sector.
