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New Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries will use her speech to the Tory Party conference to throw down the gauntlet to the BBC following rows over the impartiality of its journalists.
Sources said Ms Dorries, who was promoted to the Cabinet in Boris Johnson's reshuffle last month, hoped to use the speech to tell the corporation 'what was expected of it if it wanted to keep the licence fee'.
The Mid-Bedfordshire MP, a best-selling novelist who appeared on ITV's I'm A Celebrity…, has previously described the BBC as a 'Left-wing', 'hypocritical' and 'patronising' organisation which had too many 'dull, boring, male and ageing wig-wearing men' on presenting duties.
A source said: 'The plan is to put the BBC on notice that its days as the voice of the Islington Left are numbered.
Sources said Nadine Dorries, who was promoted to the Cabinet in Boris Johnson's reshuffle last month, hoped to use her Tory conference speech to tell the BBC 'what was expected of it'
'Nadine appreciates that it has a global reputation for the quality of many of its programmes, but the woke-infested news output needs addressing.'
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