The BBC is set to “love-bomb” Labour if it wins the election, insiders have said – amid continued fears over cuts and the impending review of the licence fee’s future. Staffers are “counting down the days” to a potential Labour election victory, which they believe is set to transform the political environment in which the BBC operates and “liberate” the broadcaster from rows over bias . “There’s a giddy feeling of liberation coming,” said one News staffer.
“The Tory boot is being lifted from the BBC’s throat. It’s like the end of an antagonistic relationship. But then of course, reality will set in.
” Newly-elected Labour MPs and ministers would be “love-bombed” by the corporation over the Summer, i has been told. “There’ll be lots of invites to the the BBC box at the Proms,” predicts one old hand. Whilst Conservative Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer has accused the BBC of “bias” and impartiality failures, the mood music from a potential incoming Labour administration is much more positive.
Thangam Debbonaire, Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, recently said: “I love the BBC. It’s one of our best exports, both as a brand and as a commercial product.” She dismissed rows over “impartiality” saying “the myth of objectivity is overblown.
” However Andrew Marr, the former BBC political editor, offered a word of caution to former colleagues expecting life under Labour to be a bed of roses. “As somebody who .