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Call to scrap TV licence fee after boss Davie's 'admission'

February 19, 2023

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Sunday Express

TORY MPs are stepping up calls for the TV licence fee to be scrapped after BBC boss Tim Davie's admission that the current funding arrangements are "truly amazing".

- Jonathan Walker

Call to scrap TV licence fee after boss Davie's 'admission'

Sir Christopher Chope, one of those pushing for a new system, said: "I agree. I think it is amazing - because it is a regressive tax on everybody, on the entire country.

"A Conservative government should have done something about it, and it still hasn't.

"The liberal establishment seems to want to penalise people.

"It is anachronistic and the director-general seems to be conceding that." In leaked comments to staff about the viewing charge, Mr Davie said: "It's truly amazing what we're pulling off, by the way.

That most households are pretty happy paying a licence being a forced payment.

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