Starmer backs ‘independent BBC’ but declines to tell Trump to drop $1bn lawsuit threat – as it happened

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Responding to UK culture secretary Lisa Nandy’s refusal to review the BBC board membership of Robbie Gibb, Liberal Democrat culture, media and sports spokesperson Anna Sabine said on Tuesday evening:

This is the wrong choice by Lisa Nandy. Robbie Gibb isn’t fit to serve on the BBC board, and the BBC charter gives the government the power to sack him.

I hope the prime minister will step in and do the right thing.

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Source: www.theguardian.com

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