Rejected petition Stop BBC using licence fee payers' money for a Conservative Leadership debate

This contest is an internal process of direct interest only to 100.000 party members. Whilst the leader may become prime minister, and it is therefore proper that the media should report it in depth, to enable an entirely partisan process, free of non-Tory views, is an egregious use of public money.

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It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

The BBC is an independent body governed by a Royal Charter. Under the terms of that Charter, the BBC is operationally and editorially independent of government and there is no provision for the government to intervene in the BBC’s day-to-day operations.

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Date submitted 29 May 2019
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