GB News: "We will never stop fighting to be the voice of the people"

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GB News has hit back against Ofcom's decision to uphold claims the GB News People's Forum with The Prime Minister breached rules. Ofcom announced the Forum broke impartiality rules and is threatening the channel with a sanction.

But GB News stressed it could not understand how the programme lacked the “appropriately wide range of significant views” required to uphold due impartiality. 

A GB News spokesman said: "Ofcom’s finding against GB News today is an alarming development in its attempt to silence us by standing in the way of a forum that allows the public to question politicians directly.

"The regulator’s threat to punish a news organisation with sanctions for enabling people to challenge their own prime minister strikes at the heart of democracy at a time when it could not be more vital.

"They did this robustly, intelligently, and freely. Their 15 questions, which neither we nor the Prime Minister saw beforehand, kept him under constant pressure and covered a clearly diverse range of topics. These were their words on the issues that mattered to them.

"Among many other challenges, the Prime Minister was criticised over the ‘chronic underfunding’ of social care, the housing shortage, the likely failure of his government’s Rwanda plan, the betrayal of those injured by the Covid vaccine, and asked why the LGBT community should vote for him.