Suspend the licence fee pending an independent investigation into the BBC

Lisa Nandy, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport

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The TV licence fee must be suspended, pending an independent inquiry into how the BBC handed licence fee money to a senior Hamas terrorist’s family

The BBC has admitted that licence fee money went to the wife of a senior Hamas terrorist. This is a new low in the BBC’s long history of bias and brazen misreporting.

Currently, the BBC is investigating itself and acting as though this is business as usual, but the British public is having none of it.

57% of the British public want an independent investigation; only 21% do not.

We have had enough of letting the BBC mark its own homework.

We are calling for an independent investigation and for a suspension of the licence-fee pending the outcome of that investigation.

The investigation must look into the commissioning and production of the propaganda film ‘Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone’, how much licence fee money was handed to Hamas-linked individuals, and the BBC’s longstanding history of bias on this subject.

It is unconscionable that the British public should be forced to pay money to an institution that has apparently given money to the family of a senior Hamas terrorist, and whose biased broadcasting has become propaganda instead of journalism.

Polling was conducted by YouGov, with fieldwork undertaken between 4th and 5th March 2025, with a sample size of 2,147 adults in Great Britain. The survey was carried out online. The figures have been weighted and are representative of all British adults (aged 18+). YouGov is a member of the British Polling Council and abides by its rules.

To: Lisa Nandy, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
From: [Your Name]

We are writing to call for the TV licence fee to be suspended, pending an independent inquiry into how the BBC handed licence fee money to a senior Hamas terrorist’s family.

As you know, the BBC has admitted that licence fee money went to the wife of a senior Hamas terrorist. This is a new low in the BBC’s long history of bias and brazen misreporting.

Currently, the BBC is investigating itself and acting as though this is business as usual, but the British public is having none of it.

57% of the British public want an independent investigation; only 21% do not.

We have had enough of letting the BBC mark its own homework.

We are calling for an independent investigation and for a suspension of the licence-fee pending the outcome of that investigation.

The investigation must look into the commissioning and production of the propaganda film ‘Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone’, how much licence fee money was handed to Hamas-linked individuals, and the BBC’s longstanding history of bias on this subject.

It is unconscionable that the British public should be forced to pay money to an institution that has apparently given money to the family of a senior Hamas terrorist, and whose biased broadcasting has become propaganda instead of journalism.

We call on you to set up an independent investigation, and to suspend the licence fee pending its outcome.