Selling channel would concentrate programming and investment in south-east England, say executives
Privatising Channel 4 would sabotage Boris Johnson’s efforts to boost the British economy and cut future tax revenues by hundreds of millions of pounds, senior cabinet ministers have been warned.
Four prominent Scottish television executives have written to the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, Michael Gove, the levelling-up secretary, and Kwasi Kwarteng, the business secretary, urging them to oppose the “shortsighted” proposals to sell it off.
