Suspend the licence fee pending an independent investigation into the BBC

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

BBC: Spokespeople for terrorists
Campaign Against Antisemitism

Our national broadcaster has become an international embarrassment.


The resignations of Director General Tim Davie and BBC News CEO Deborah Turness should be seen as an admission through gritted teeth that the much vaunted impartiality of the BBC has been a sham.

The BBC’s growing bias has extended over many years across a wide array of issues, but for British Jews, the gravest betrayal is that on the watch of Mr Davie and Ms Turness, the BBC has often served as a mouthpiece for Hamas, feeding licence fee payers a diet of propaganda that has been a central feature of the drumbeat of incitement across the West.

It is outrageous that the British public should be forced to pay money to an institution whose biased broadcasting has become propaganda instead of journalism, even paying licence fee money to the family of a senior Hamas terrorist.

Despite being caught out many times, the BBC has gaslit its audience by claiming to be a bastion of ethics and truthful journalism, even as our polling has shown that 92% of British Jews consider BBC coverage to be unfavourable on matters of Jewish interest.

Now that the evidence is totally overwhelming and undeniable, Mr Davie and Ms Turness have finally resigned, but the fact that they managed to stay on for so long, dismissing and denying scandal after scandal, is clear proof that there is a wider problem at the broadcaster which it cannot be trusted to fix alone.

The BBC cannot now replace its outgoing Director General and CEO of News with others sourced from the same BBC rotten executive class.

There now needs to be an independent inquiry into BBC bias, with its results published for all to see, resulting in a rooting out of those who have hijacked the BBC into a vehicle that serves an increasingly warped agenda.

Until that independent inquiry comes, it is unconscionable to force taxpayers to pay for the biased, sanctimonious and unaccountable BBC.

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.

The resignations of Director General Tim Davie and BBC News CEO Deborah Turness should be seen as an admission through gritted teeth that the much vaunted impartiality of the BBC has been a sham.

The BBC’s growing bias has extended over many years across a wide array of issues, but for British Jews, the gravest betrayal is that on the watch of Mr Davie and Ms Turness, the BBC has often served as a mouthpiece for Hamas, feeding licence fee payers a diet of propaganda that has been a central feature of the drumbeat of incitement across the West.

It is outrageous that the British public should be forced to pay money to an institution whose biased broadcasting has become propaganda instead of journalism, even paying licence fee money to the family of a senior Hamas terrorist.

Despite being caught out many times, the BBC has gaslit its audience by claiming to be a bastion of ethics and truthful journalism.

Now that the evidence is totally overwhelming and undeniable, Mr Davie and Ms Turness have finally resigned, but the fact that they managed to stay on for so long, dismissing and denying scandal after scandal, is clear proof that there is a wider problem at the broadcaster which it cannot be trusted to fix alone.

The BBC cannot now replace its outgoing Director General and CEO of News with others sourced from the same BBC rotten executive class.

There now needs to be an independent inquiry into BBC bias, with its results published for all to see, resulting in a rooting out of those who have hijacked the BBC into a vehicle that serves an increasingly warped agenda.

Until that independent inquiry comes, it is unconscionable to force taxpayers to pay for the biased, sanctimonious and unaccountable BBC.

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