Osborne: scrapping recipes has 'balanced' BBC

George Osborne

The “operational decision” to close BBC Food has helped re-establish the BBC as a public broadcaster rather than an online newspaper, according to George Osborne.

‘BBC is public broadcaster, not online newspaper’

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