You'd have to visit a pig farm at feeding time to hear the squealing Nadine Dorries faced: HENRY DEEDES watches the Culture Secretary serving notice on the BBC licence fee.
Heavens, the noise! Tea time in the Commons yesterday and opposition MPs were making a right din. It's been a while since a minister's statement has caused such uproar but Nadine Dorries's turn at the dispatch box had sent them into apoplexy.
Normally you'd have to visit a pig farm at feeding time to hear such a cacophony of high-pitched squealing.
The Culture Secretary had come to the House to serve notice on the BBC licence fee. For the next two years, it would be frozen. As of 2027, Auntie will have to start thinking of new ways to fund itself.
Nervy times for all those phalanxes of BBC execs. Not to mention the velvet-voiced maitre d's at their favoured Marylebone canteens.
