Starmer under pressure to tell Trump to call off ‘outrageous’ lawsuit against BBC

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Sir John Whittingdale, the former culture secretary who led the last charter renewal negotiations with the BBC, had told The Independent that Sir Keir Starmer should have already intervened to dissuade Trump from taking legal action

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Sir Keir Starmer is under mounting pressure to intervene over Donald Trump’s “outrageous” attempts to sue the BBC for $10bn in response to the editing of a speech he made before the 2021 attack on the Capitol.

Starmer under pressure to tell Trump to call off ‘outrageous’ lawsuit against BBC

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