Hunt says Tories will abandon plans to tax phone lines

Apparently the Tories would reverse two of the main proposals in the government’s Digital Britain bill and are considering plans to rip up the BBC’s royal charter.

This morning's FT reports that shadow culture secretary Jeremy Hunt,in an interview with the paper said a Tory government

would scrap a proposed 50p a month tax on all telephone lines, aimed at raising about £175m a year towards the cost of funding superfast broadband to UK homes, “as soon as possible” after the election, expected in May and,also promised to reverse government plans to force the BBC to share £130m of the television licence fee with other broadcasters.