Laurence Fox’s show is among those being investigated (Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images)
Ofcom has hit GB News with four new investigations into a number of shows over the past few weeks.
The broadcast regulator is looking into several programmes on the network, including Laurence Fox’s show, over concerns they could have broken rules regarding politicians serving as newsreaders and other impartiality issues.
The watchdog, which has already been investigating GB News, said they would ‘work to conclude our investigations as swiftly as possible’ in accordance with their procedures.
The June 16 episode of Laurence Fox was guest presented by Martin Daubney in his absence, and the programme featured a discussion regarding immigration and asylum policy.
Ofcom noted that a particular focus included ‘the issue of small boats crossing the English Channel’, and ‘an interview with the leader of the political party Reform UK, Richard Tice’.
The watchdog said the episode is being investigated over rules requiring ‘that due impartiality is preserved on matters of major political or industrial controversy, or those relating to current public policy’.
Ofcom is also looking into Jacob Rees-Mogg’s programme (Picture: Tayfun Salci/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock)
Meanwhile, ‘an appropriately wide range of significant views’ must be included ‘and given due weight’.
Ofcom is also looking into the May 12 edition of Friday Morning with Ester and Phil, which included a discussion about various issues including those related ‘to a teenager who was being sentenced for terrorism offences’.
The investigation will look into whether or not the programme broke rules preventing politicians ‘from acting as a newsreader, interviewer or reporter in any news programmes unless, exceptionally, it is editorially justified’.
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Two other programmes are being investigated under the same rules, including Esther and Phil’s May 13 show, and the June 13 edition of Jacob Rees-Mogg’s State of the Nation.
The Esther and Phil programme is also being looked at to ensure that news ‘must be presented with due impartiality’.
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