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Ofcom Begins Procedure To Sanction GB News Over Rishi Sunak ‘People’s Forum’


GB News could now receive an Ofcom sanction over the Rishi Sunak People's Forum after receiving 500 complaints.

Ofcom has begun the procedure to issue GB News with a sanction following a “serious and repeated” breach of its code over a People’s Forum show in which Prime Minister Rishi Sunak took questions from a live audience. It was also rapped in March over Laurence Fox’s highly misogynistic rant about a female journalist, which led to him being fired from the station and presenter Dan Wootton leaving. “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.

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