New BBC chairman 'must quit Tories'

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Labour is demanding that Chris Patten, the Government's choice as the next chairman of the BBC, must resign from the Conservative Party and give up some of his other business and voluntary roles before he takes up the post.

Lord Patten of Barnes has been identified by the Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt as the best candidate to succeed Sir Michael Lyons as chairman of the BBC Trust and is due to appear before the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee of MPs tomorrow for a pre-appointment scrutiny hearing.

@Wellard Said

Politicians active or not shouldn't be considered for these kind of positions imo.

@sister_of_mercy Said

I agree.

Also, I read somewhere the other day that the BBC have all of a sudden changed the wording of the spending 'cuts' to 'savings' instead. Although it's only a word, it can give a radically different interpretation of the news that would border on partiality. Saying that however, you could probably make a case for using 'cuts' beforehand.

@SparklyKatie Said

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/new-bbc-chairman-must-quit-tories-2236111.html

Should he? As long as his politics don't interfere with his job at the BBC what does it matter which party he supports? Lots of other people in the BBC have political affiliations, should they all have to leave any party membership they have too?

I don't think it matters he's a member of the Tory party unless he starts pushing Tory politics into BBC programming more than any other party.

What do you think?