SW1 tuned into GB News last night for coverage of its Tory leadership event: Decision Time: The Race to Lead. Chris Hope compèred with questions from the audience aimed at the candidates. Badenoch won the room by the end…
Guido has had sight of the BARB figures for the night. At its peak GB News reached 152,600 viewers for its leadership event – remaining well above 100,000 throughout the two hours of coverage. Sky News had 80,600 and the BBC 70,400 concurrently. GB beat its two rivals’ combined figures…
GB has been leading broadcast coverage of the Tory leadership race. Hosting the only quasi-debate that the leadership camps have managed to agree to so far is a win…
Andy Haldane, Burnham’s recent adviser on the economy who has not taken up a No10 job, told Andrew Marr on LBC:
“The market now suspects that this is a traditional tax-and-spend socialist government with better TikTok videos…
imposing windfall taxes on oil & gas or on banks or upping capital gains tax would […] repeat the mistake that Rachel made […] The Achilles heel, the fiscal Achilles heel of this government thus far has been its unwillingness and/or inability to cut public spending.”
