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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the spectators' daily politics podcast.

I'm Cindy and I'm driven by Katie Pauls and Isabel Hartman.

Today Nadine Dorris has announced that the government would have decided to put

Channel 4 currently a public broadcaster out for private sale. Katie has something

that's been talked about for a while now. What are the ins and outs of this?

So I think it's interesting when we're trying to work out the government's motivations.

The culture is actually Nadine Dorris has said the government ownership is holding Channel 4 back

and selling it to private owner will give it the tools and freedom to flourish and

private as a public service broadcaster long into the future. Channel 4 figures take a different

view as delay but as do some Tory MPs. I mean, Kirsty Elso, I think probably has put it most

succinctly saying it's the load of utter twaddle and that's the location, location presenter.

But also what was interesting was this was announced last night and this morning

series of senior Tories came out to criticise it. You had Reef Davidson, the former leader of the

Scottish Conservatives criticising it. You had Tom Tuggenhardt, Damien Greene from the One Nation

group. So I think it's MPs that you would see traditionally as being on the left with the party

but they're pointing out that that show was instrumental in Channel 4. So actually they're saying,

well, this is Tory to have Channel 4 as it is and not privatised. In terms of the motivation,

I think that there's been interesting comments that I don't know if they meant to be as they

perceived but you have Julian Knight who is the chair of the DCMS Select Committee saying that

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