Get our daily email briefing straight to your inbox Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid EmailPeers piled fresh pressure on the Government today to save over-75s' free TV licences. A last-ditch fight to preserve the lifeline unfolded in the House of Lords where calls mounted for the Tories to protect free licences. But Government Minister Baroness Barran said: “The BBC is responsible for the over-75s' licence fee concession, not the Government. It says keeping licences free for all over-75s would cost £745million by 2021-22. Boris Johnson has previously urged the BBC to “cough up” and save free licences.

Source: Daily Mirror July 06, 2020 13:07 UTC