[Brekkie]

BBC Parliament isn't expensive, but I do think it should be spun off from the BBC - possibly in league with the parliamentary authorities and/or with a consortium of the three news broadcasters. Might even use it as a general political events channel, covering press conferences etc. (meaning they no longer have to clog up the news channels) and be able to get some actual parliamentary review programming back. It's just, given the cuts, it remaining a BBC service arguably detracts from quality of the channel than adds anything to it.

This is where previous cuts cause future problems. Democracy Live was a much better service than one linear channel for moving into a streaming landscape, able to offer multiple simultaneous live streams of both houses, the devolved Parliaments, committee rooms and anything else that might fall under the banner (public inquiries and party conferences for example).

Similarly axing the news app a few years ago has left them trying to make a single news channel work when the app could have ultimately been a less costly replacement with pop up live streams and on demand headlines and stories.