My mother should pay for her TV licence, says senior Tory MP He said that the refusal of Hacked Off, the campaign group, to compromise meant that the Queen may be unable to recommend a Royal Charter on press regulation. The newspaper industry has rejected the Government's Royal Charter for press regulation and submitted a rival proposal. He said: "The problem is Hacked Off. They have very clearly rejected the industry's version and said Parliament has spoken, you have got to stick to Parliament. But the consequence of that is that is that at best you get a recognition body and no one comes along to ask for recognition or worst you don't get a royal charter at all. That's a disaster. Mr Whittingdale said the culture select committee is likely to examine the future of the BBC ahead of the Royal Charter in new 2016. He said that the Jimmy Savile and Lord McAlpine scandals have left Lord Patten, the chairman of the BBC trust, looking "grey and tired." Mr Whittingdale said: "He does look grey and tired. I'm not surprised, he's been through the most extraordinary few months and he is reported as saying it has been his most difficult period in public life. There are areas where he has been criticised with some justification. He said he would prefer for the BBC Trust to be scrapped and replaced with an executive board at the corporation regulated by Ofcom. He also said there needed to be "a pretty detailed examination" of the Panorama expose of life in North Korea and described its use of students from the London School of Economics as a cover as "highly risky." He said: "The fact you have the LSE, the Law Society, Universities UK all lining up against the BBC, it's quite a serious conflict and I was surprised the BBC don't look more anxious about it." He said Helen Boaden, who was criticised in the Pollard review after the Jimmy Savile scandal, should have faced a "clear sanction or penalty." She was instead appointed as the BBC's director of radio. A spokesman for Hacked Off rejected Mr Whittingdale's criticisms. He said the newspaper industry's proposals did not "satisfy or conform to the Leveson recommendations, and so should be rejected."