Inside sources tell Guido that Liam Halligan has handed in his notice to GB News. One tells Guido “He is hugely productive and appears on air many times each day, dissecting economic and fiscal issues, while discussing politics too. But he has grown pretty disillusioned since his dedicated ‘On the Money’ show was ditched.” 

Other newsroom sources are concerned GB News will miss having a proper Economics Editor in the coming months, given the importance of fiscal and cost-of-living issues for the upcoming general election. Halligan was one of the few remaining on-screen faces from the original launch in 2021.

Halligan would not comment, though Guido understands he will continue to write his long-standing weekly Economics Agenda column in The Telegraph, while co-presenting the Planet Normal podcast he founded with Allison Pearson. There are few broadcast journalists who can explain economics who are not left-of-centre, so he will be hard to replace…