Andrew McHallam
BBC privatiser 1990
At the 1990 Conservative Party conference:
- Conference rejected, by a large majority, part of a motion calling for the BBC to be required to finance itself, primarily from advertising and sponsorship, in favour of an amendment calling for alternative sources of revenue to supplement or replace the licence fee. Part of the motion welcoming the rapid expansion in the number of channels and believing that the BBC should 'no longer be protected from commercial pressure' was also passed. Andrew McHallam (Holborn and St Pancras), moving the motion, said that the BBC charter should be revoked and the corporation should compete for advertising and sponsorship. 'Auntie BBC must stop being a kept woman and go out into the world to earn an honest living.'[1]
Affiliations
- Institute for European Defence and Strategic Studies 1991 until at least 1995
- Conservative Party's adviser for foreign affairs in 1998.[2]
