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Emily Thornberry says BBC World Service ‘must be preserved’

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Labour MP said BBC World Service ' must be preserved if we lose it, we won't be able to get it back' Comments follow plans to cut the service by 130 jobs to save 6 million for the next financial year .

Chancellor Rachel Reeves previously said in the Budget that the next year will give an increase in funding to the BBC ’s World Service ’.