Just in time

The Conservative Governments of May and Johnson have been tardy in decision-making about the the BBC World Service, according to Matthew Moore of The Times. 

After dumping the costs of the World Service on licence-fee payers in 2010, the Foreign Office had a change of heart in 2015, and invested specific new services in a programme the BBC called "World 2020", which has, over time, created 1,200 new jobs. The BBC warned in writing at the beginning of 2019 that these jobs would have to go unless the funding was extended. It was finally extended for six months at the end of March last year, and has more recently been extended "to April 2021".