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The main losers from the announced cuts to the broadcaster's output are those who make up a growing share of the Tory vote

-baiting by announcing cuts to the broadcaster’s funding. The licence fee, an annual charge on households which provides most of the corporation’s income, will be frozen at £159 for the next two years. That was expected; more surprising was her declaration on Twitter that the current licence-fee agreement, which runs until 2027, would be the last. Ominously for theThe announcement was billed as “red meat” for Torys, who are alarmed at the party’s recent dive in the polls.

Older people have long been somewhat more likely than youngsters to vote Conservative, but in the past decade they have become hugely so. Whereas in 2010 the Tories’ vote share among over-65s was 14 percentage points higher than among under-25s, in 2019 the party won 64% of the pensioners’ vote, versus just 19% among the younger group.’s audience . Young people are moving away from television in general and thein particular, while the elderly remain super-consumers of both.

What deal could be better for the corporation’s elderly, Tory-voting viewers? It is hard to think of one. Some Conservatives back a subscription model, along Netflix lines. Yet younger households would probably opt out, meaning the’s remaining subscribers would lose the subsidy they currently get from those who are forced to contribute despite seldom tuning in.rely on advertising. Thatcher planned to do this until her advisers concluded that it would devastate commercial media.

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