Britain | Eyes right
Two conservative upstarts aim to disrupt British TV news
Broadcast laws rule out a “British Fox”. But the shift to streaming could change that
“HE SAYS THEY’RE ignorant!” complained a member of the audience of “Question Time”, a BBC current-affairs show, at a recording in Derby, a Brexit-voting town in 2019. “They’re not ignorant. They knew what they were voting for.”
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Eyes right”
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