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 EmailA last-ditch bid to save over-75s' free TV licences was launched today amid mounting anger at the Tories' betrayal. Curbs due from August 1 will see an estimated 3.7 million over-75s forced to pay £157.50-a-year to watch their favourite programmes. The Conservatives pledged at the 2017 election to protect free licences for the rest of that Parliament, which was due to run until 2022. It says keeping licences free for all over-75s would cost £745million by 2021-22. "And critically it is not the BBC making that judgment about poverty – It is the Government who sets and controls that measure.”

Source: Daily Mirror July 21, 2020 16:56 UTC