Pensioners overwhelmingly believe the Government should be responsible for funding free TV licences, a poll showed today. Some 76% who were questioned by the campaign group Later Life Ambitions said it was up to ministers to maintain the benefit for over-75s.
Millions of OAPs face being stripped of the lifeline from August 1 after the Tories ditched a 2017 election manifesto pledge to preserve free licences.
The Conservatives are under mounting pressure to strike a deal with the BBC to keep the benefit, as the impact of withdrawing entitlement was laid bare by a Later Life Ambitions poll.
The group represents more than a quarter of a million pensioners from the National Federation of Occupational Pensioners, the Civil Service Pensioners’