The survival of the licence fee is under threat amid the crisis at the BBC triggered by the botched editing of a Donald Trump documentary .

Nigel Farage vowed on Monday that Reform UK would replace the “wholly unsustainable” fee with a Netflix-style “subscription model”, while the Labour Government is also considering a range of options for the corporation’s Charter renewal, including “hybrid” funding arrangements.

The leak of an internal BBC memo criticising a 2024 Panorama documentary for editing a Trump speech to make it sound like he explicitly encouraged the Capital Hill riots has cost the jobs of two of the corporation’s top bosses, director-general Tim Davie and chief executive of news, Deborah Turness . New Feature

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