The Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries said it was time for broadcaster to ‘fly the nest towards a very exciting future’

Nadine has knocked heads with TV host Kirstie Allsopp for privatization of Channel 4, she said broadcasters “salad days are in the past”.

Both conveyed messages on Twitter after Nadine’ opinion was published in the Mail on Sunday, she addressing the Government’s decision to push ahead with plans to sell off the channel.

Nadine wrote that former Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the one who set up Channel 4 in 1982, had ultimately wanted it to be “free from the constraints of the state.” Described the opposition to the move as “lazy, overwrought and ill-informed rhetoric from the Leftie luvvie lynch Nadine, who presents property show Location, Location, Location on Channel 4, twitted while questioning, whether it was “really ministerial” to describe those contesting privatization as a “lynch mob” while “at the same time complaining about having been accused of fascism”.

While sharing an article about the US Senate passing an anti-lynching Bill, she said, “This piece might make you think twice about using the term.”

Last week Government confirmed that it will proceed with plans to privatize Channel 4, which has been publicly owned since it was founded in 1982 and is funded by advertising.

On which Kirstie responded to announcement by tweeting that “no true Conservative would sell Channel 4” and that “Lady T will be spinning in her grave”.

Ms Nadine replied to her posts on Sunday night, she suggested Margaret Thatcher’s memoirs, The Downing Street Years, proved she intended Channel 4 to be sold.

She said Channel 4 cannot be preserved in its current state because of “decreasing advertising revenue and decreasing investment in new content”.

Tory MP added: “There is of course the bonus a sale will bring to the entire sector which is that the proceeds of sale will be invested back into people from all backgrounds, especially those from left-behind communities because talent is everywhere, not just in the SE.

“We will invest in skills in order to benefit from incoming demand due to our booming film and TV sector due to the favorable tax benefit/relief and funding this government has put in place to encourage film industry to regard Britain as its home.

“I also love C4, especially Location, but as I say in my article, it’s time to look to the future. The channel’s salad days are in the past. Being owned by the gov is restrictive. Time for C4 to fly the nest towards a very exciting future.”

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