Media: Ownership Debate

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Media: Ownership

Lord Inglewood Excerpts
Thursday 11th November 2010

(14 years, 1 month ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Rawlings Portrait Baroness Rawlings
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My noble friend Lord Roberts is absolutely right and I could not agree with him more, but it is the Government’s position not to interfere with any of the media, including television.

Lord Inglewood Portrait Lord Inglewood
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My Lords—

Lord Pearson of Rannoch Portrait Lord Pearson of Rannoch
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Even so, my Lords, will the Government encourage the BBC to fulfil the single promise that it made in the wake of the Wilson report in 2005, which was to explain to the British people how the institutions of the European Union interact and their effect on British life?