Cuts to BBC World Service funding would ‘make us less safe’, MPs tell ministers | BBC World Service
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on June 8, 2025
Hours before Rachel Reeves stood up to deliver her budget last year, government officials were still in tense negotiations with bosses at the BBC over how much the World Service would be given.
The amount they were haggling over was relatively small – just £5.5m out of a total budget of £400m. But 
