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The latest edition of the Guardian’s Politics Weekly podcast is out. In a reshuffle special, Aubrey Allegretti and Rowena Mason look at the winners and losers of Boris Johnson’s reshuffle. Plus, Jessica Elgot and Rafael Behr analyse the government’s Covid winter plan.
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Tim Davie, the BBC director general, said this morning that he would not be “distracted” by the previous anti-BBC comments from Nadine Dorries, the new culture secretary. Asked about some of her previous remarks, he told the RTS Cambridge Convention 2021:
I wouldn’t get too distracted by it; it’s all about sitting down with the ministers and the teams and really getting into it, I’m not distracted by it. I think we have got a strong case for investment in the BBC.
We need a really serious, grown-up dialogue with government, it’s an incredibly important topic. There will always be a bit of theatre but we will sit down and have a proper dialogue around the BBC, and I look forward to it.
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