Labour accuses culture secretary over BBC and Ofcom 'interference'

The culture secretary, Karen Bradley, wrote to Ofcom to call for the regulator to hold the broadcaster to account over the diversity of its on-screen and off-screen workforce.Labour has accused the government of interfering with the independence of the BBC and Ofcom after the culture secretary demanded that the media regulator should scrutinise the broadcaster more closely.Tom Watson, Labour’s shadow culture secretary, said Karen Bradley had made a “serious mistake” by writing