GB News: Politicians' shows under scrutiny in four new Ofcom investigations

Media regulator Ofcom has launched 4 caller investigations into GB News aft complaints that the transmission broke impartiality rules.

Three episodes of shows hosted by Conservative MPs are being investigated successful narration to a regularisation that politicians can't usually enactment arsenic quality presenters.

Programmes hosted by Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, Philip Davies and Esther McVey are among those being examined.

It takes the fig of progressive Ofcom investigations into GB News to seven.

The UK media watchdog has a regularisation that prevents politicians from acting arsenic newsreaders, interviewers oregon reporters successful quality programmes "unless, exceptionally, it is editorially justified".

However, immoderate quality networks person argued their programmes hosted by politicians bash not interruption the rules due to the fact that they should beryllium classed arsenic existent affairs alternatively than news.

In June, Ofcom commissioned research into nationalist attitudes towards specified programmes to determine whether the rules should change.

On Monday, Ofcom said it was looking into 3 editions of GB News programmes successful narration to the restrictions connected politicians acting arsenic quality presenters.

They see the 13 June occurrence of Sir Jacob's amusement State of the Nation, which covered a stabbing successful Nottingham.

The regulator is besides investigating the 12 May occurrence of Friday Morning with Ester and Phil, which featured issues including a teen who was being sentenced for coercion offences.

The pursuing day's Saturday Morning with Esther and Phil is besides being investigated nether the "politicians arsenic presenters" rule, arsenic good arsenic different regularisation that says quality indispensable beryllium presented with owed impartiality.

That occurrence featured an interrogation with Howard Cox - the Reform UK Party's campaigner for the London mayoral predetermination - who was speaking unrecorded from an anti-Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez) demonstration.

Finally, Ofcom is investigating an occurrence of Laurence Fox's programme from 16 June, erstwhile it was being was guest-presented by Martin Daubney.

That amusement featured an interrogation with Reform UK person Richard Tice and included a treatment astir migration and asylum policy.

The regulator said it was looking into whether the programme broke rules requiring owed impartiality to beryllium "preserved connected matters of large governmental oregon concern controversy, oregon those relating to existent nationalist policy, and that an appropriately wide scope of important views are included and fixed owed weight".

BBC News has contacted GB News for comment.

There are 3 different ongoing Ofcom investigations into the transmission - relating to Sir Jacob's show, Davies and McVey's programme, and the channel's Don't Kill Cash campaign.