The regular critics of politicians presenting programmes on GB News have had nothing to say about Sky News doing it. Last Sunday Tory peer Ruth Davidson hosted Sunday Morning with Ruth Davidson and interviewed Defence Secretary Wes Streeting as well as Shadow Chancellor Andrew Griffith. While they spoke Sky ran “Breaking News” straps on what Streeting was telling her. Close to the bone for a current affairs programme…
Sky News’ own promo for its rolling presenters describes Davidson as a “politician and journalist.” This is essentially the set-up Ofcom went after GB News for – the internet regulator found Jacob Rees-Mogg and Esther McVey broke impartiality rules by reading out news on their shows until the High Court struck it down in February 2025. The court ruled a programme is either news or current affairs and cannot be both. Ofcom then rewrote its guidance. And added members of the House of Lords to its definition of a politician…
Thanks to GB News’ own court victory, a current affairs show with breaking news straps is still designated as current affairs. Will Ofcom be probing this one?
None of this has troubled former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger or former Ofcom regulator Stewart Purvis, who foam at the mouth whenever Nigel Farage appears on GB News. Who knows why…
Robert Jenrick on the Today programme:
“Can you now give a guarantee to your listeners this morning that no BBC presenter in the future will be exposed as a paedophile, as a number have been in the recent past? No, of course you can’t…”