The charity published an open letter to Prime Minister Keir Starmer last year, co-signed by Gary Lineker, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dua Lipa and more than 400 other public figures, demanding an immediate suspension of all UK arms licences to Israel, unimpeded humanitarian access across Gaza, and a commitment to securing a permanent ceasefire.
Choose Love also contributed to funding a legal challenge against the previous Conservative government’s Rwanda asylum removal scheme, covering staff costs for Asylum Aid’s High Court case against the deportation policy.
Conservative MP Jack Rankin was among the most vocal critics, accusing the BBC of failing to uphold its charter obligations on impartiality. “When activists nakedly misuse charitable designation to peddle their extremist agenda, it should concern us all,” he said.
He went further, arguing that the compulsory nature of the licence fee made the situation worse. “It is doubly shocking that our licence fee, which we have no choice but to pay, is shovelled in directions opposite to the national interest,” he added.