Tipple: Toby Young will spend £50 on a bottle of wine
Social commentator Toby Young says one of the first things he’d do if he were Chancellor of the Exchequer is scrap the BBC licence fee.
No one who owns a television set, he believes, should be forced to hand over £159 a year to one particular broadcaster. He likens it to Hovis demanding a fee for those who use a toaster.
Young, 57, recently founded the Free Speech Union, a non-profit campaign organisation (www.freespeechunion. org). He spoke…
