'Scrap BBC Trust' WORLD TODAY: BROADCASTING.
CULTURE Secretary Ben Bradshaw Benjamin Peter James Bradshaw (born 30 August 1960 in London) is a British politician and the Labour Member of Parliament for Exeter
The Minister of State in the Department of Health and Minister for the South West was one of the first openly gay MPs. called last night for the BBC's
governing body Noun 1. governing body - the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something; "he claims that the present administration is corrupt"; "the governance of an association is responsible to its members"; "he to be scrapped and said the corporation had probably
reached the limits of "reasonable expansion". In a speech to
the Royal Television Society's Cambridge Convention, Mr Bradshaw
said the BBC Trust was not sustainable in the long term as "both
regulator and cheerleader". He also said there may be a case for a
smaller licence fee and that there should be a major public debate about
the BBC's structure.
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