Minister overseeing BBC licence negotiations challenged over tweet to corporation’s political editor
The culture secretary, Nadine Dorries, has insisted she does not use her financial power over the BBC to put pressure on the broadcaster’s news coverage, after writing a tweet aimed at the corporation’s political editor, Laura Kuenssberg.
Kuenssberg had shared the views of an anonymous Tory MP who said Boris Johnson’s authority was “evaporating” and that he “looked weak and sounded weak” at a meeting of backbenchers.
