What does the arrival of GB News really mean for the UK? Samuel Fishwick ‘I like big challenges,’ says Andrew Neil, the Scottish broadcaster hired as GB News’s chairman and top presenter last September.
That’s lucky because there are plenty. Critics have been quick to slam the upstart TV station as a ‘British Fox News’, which is nonsense, says Neil. Yes, there will be sections entitled ‘Wokewatch’ and ‘Mediawatch’ but this won’t be ‘shouty, angry telly’. It will have to conform to Ofcom impartiality rules, for a start, having secured a licence to air in 96 per cent of UK homes on all major platforms: Freeview, Sky, Virgin Media, YouView and Freesat. ‘I don’t think there’s a market for that kind of hard-right stuff in this country,’ he says, sitting in his home study at a vast desk beneath a glittering gallery of Spectator magazine covers (he has been chairman of its parent group, Press Holdings, since 2008).
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David Lammy shows what opposition really looks like with trademark speech
Tim Walker said the Tottenham MP spoke for all of us who love our country and what it once stood for .
David Lammy delivered a blistering speech in the House of Commons as he stepped in to fight for “every single on of us”, activist Femi Oluwole said.
The shadow secretary of state for justice hit out at the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which passed through parliament at the second reading last night, saying it jeopardises the “fundamental freedoms of protest that the British public hold dear”.
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It was 6.38am when Piers Morgan huffed from the set of
Good Morning Britain, almost parading out of the studio in either real or feigned indignation.
Yet his departure - “OK, I’m done with this” - if not planned, at least felt preordained. For much of his career, the man born Piers Stefan O’Meara, has been quitting jobs, friendships and roles in dramatic fashion.
Sometimes he has been given a sharp boot, but he has always managed to land on his feet.
The 55-year-old’s departure from ITV studios in London follows criticism of Morgan from one of his fellow presenters on the morning show, which can attract more than 1.5 million viewers.