Bill Emmott: “Boris Johnson wants to control the BBC to win his culture war”

LONDON. “Now the real risk to the Bbc it is an “Italianization”, that is to say, to become prey to political parties, something that in the United Kingdom has almost never been because it is public but impartial. Now, however, Boris Johnson and the Conservative party want to decisively increase their influence on Bbc, as Berlusconi did with Rai: potentially, it is the worst threat in the history of public television “.