No 10’s apparent favourite for BBC chair has previously revealed his thoughts on ‘regressive’ licence fee
In 2014, in a wood-panelled room in a City of London private members’ club, Charles Moore – reportedly No 10’s favoured candidate for the chairmanship of the BBC – outlined his views on the corporation. At the time, I was researching a book about the BBC, This New Noise, and was eager to understand the passions and arguments of the corporation’s critics, as well as those of its defenders.
His main objection was, it seemed, to the BBC’s “massive, unique power”, upheld by a licence fee that he regarded as “a regressive tax” that “bears very heavily on the poor”.
