The corporation said the two songs would be performed by a “select group of BBC singers”The BBC has bowed to political pressure to reinstate a sung performance of Rule, Britannia! and Land of Hope and Glory at the Last Night of the Proms. The prime minister criticised the BBC and said it was time “we stopped our cringing embarrassment about our history, about our traditions, and about our culture”. Politicians from across the spectrum joined the condemnation of the corporation. Speaking to Tory MPs after the BBC’s U-turn today, Boris Johnson said the country was going through an “orgy of national embarrassment”.

Source: The Times September 02, 2020 16:07 UTC