Big steps

Baroness Morgan of Cotes has given an interview to The House magazine. Is she or isn't she a stop-gap Culture Secretary ?  “My intention to step back remains but I will have the honour of being in the House of Lords.”

And on the BBC.

“We want great broadcasting, but the way people consume television, news and broadcasting is changing. It’s why we need better connectivity, for example. The younger generation don’t watch live TV or terrestrial TV in the same way. They want to be able to download what they want, when they want it and have all that content.

“The BBC and others have got to keep up with that. MPs are getting an awful lot more pushback from ordinary folk over ‘Why do we pay the licence fee, what are we getting for it?’ This is something we’re going to have to be open to looking at. We’ll see. It’s a big step, a huge step. What I don’t want to see is the BBC’s income being put under threat to such an extent that the diversity and breadth of their programming is something that we don’t see in the future.”