Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II stops to receive flowers from 3-year old Jessica Atfield, after the queen and her husband Duke of Edinburgh, attended a church service at St Peter and St Paul church in West Newton, England, Sunday Feb. 5, 2017. The Queen is to make history on Monday Feb. 6, when she becomes the first British monarch to reach the Sapphire Jubilee, marking the 65th.
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U.K. Parliament Approves David Clementi as BBC Chair
A committee questioned him about such topics as whether the U.K. public broadcaster should launch a new version of ‘The Great British Bake Off’ after losing the baking competition to Channel 4. David Clementi is one step closer to becoming chair of a newly organized BBC board after winning approval for his appointment in the U.K. parliament. The British government last week unveiled Clementi, a former Bank of England deputy governor, as its preferred candidate for the BBC chair role.
Finance Industry Veteran David Clementi Named BBC Chair
The former deputy head of the Bank of England will lead a new unitary board of the U.K. public broadcaster and effectively replace outgoing Rona Fairhead. David Clementi, who drew up a report calling for the current BBC Trust governing body to be abolished, has been picked as the U.K. government’s preferred candidate for the role of chair of the public broadcaster’s new unitary board.