Tory enlightenment orator joins 6 Music fanclub with U-turn over closure Media

Ed Vaizey: "I am right away an zealous listener to 6 Music." Photograph: Martin Argles/Guardian

Ed Vaizey, the shade enlightenment apportion who last week welcomed the BBC"s package of cuts, has altered his tune, job for the digital air wave hire 6 Music to be saved.

Last week Vaizey commented in the Guardian that the BBC"s proposals to cut internet, air wave and TV services were "intelligent and sensible".

However, MediaGuardian.co.uk can exhibit that when challenged by an indignant fans of the station, he certified he had not listened the hire prior to but claimed he had turn an zealous fan over the weekend. This was piece of a open recoil over the closure of 6 Music, that enclosed tens of thousands of supporters protesting around Twitter and Facebook.

"Having not listened to 6 Music, I took it on certitude that the BBC knew what it was you do in this regard," pronounced Vaizey in reply to an email sent by a part of of the open who took him to charge over his await for the package of cuts.

"Several things have happened given I spoke out. I had no clever views on 6 Music on Friday, I right away know it is shining with a ardent and clear fan bottom – I am right away an zealous listener to 6 Music. I think that 6 Music has doubled the audience. I strongly think 6 Music will be saved."

However, Vaizey combined that the idealisation preference on the closure, or otherwise, of 6 Music lay with the house and the BBC Trust.

He combined that he additionally believed that the package of cuts noted the "beginning of the debate", and nonetheless the BBC Trust is due to put out a open conference on the proposals, "there is no reason to pretence that what is due is what will happen".

"I motionless to await the ubiquitous bearing of the proposals in open since there are others who wish the BBC to go most serve in conditions of shortening their service," pronounced Vaizey. "I thought it would be beneficial to the BBC to vigilance that their efforts, in perplexing to revoke the range of a little of their services, were recognised."

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