Prime minister’s words a slapdown for culture secretary claiming BBC has ‘bias and nepotism’ problems
Boris Johnson said he believed the BBC would “be around for a long time to come”, in a view contrasting with that of his culture secretary, Nadine Dorries, who has questioned whether the corporation will exist a decade from now.
“The BBC has been around for a very long time, it’s a great national institution, I’ve no doubt that it will be around for a long time to come,” Johnson told GB News, in one of several media interviews before his speech on Wednesday to the Tory party conference, in Manchester.