Ofcom to investigate Jacob Rees-Mogg episode on GB News

Media watchdog Ofcom has launched an probe into a caller occurrence of Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg's GB News show.

The 9 May occurrence of State of the Nation featured the MP covering a breaking quality communicative astir a civilian proceedings verdict involving Donald Trump.

The regulator received 40 complaints.

Ofcom said: "We are investigating whether this programme broke our rules, which forestall politicians from acting arsenic newsreaders, unless exceptionally, it is editorially justified."

Serving politicians are, however, allowed to big existent affairs shows, arsenic agelong arsenic a scope of views are reflected.

Sir Jacob, a erstwhile furniture minister, hosts the hour-long evening amusement from Mondays to Thursdays.

Meanwhile, the regulator volition besides analyse an occurrence of a Talk TV amusement presented by erstwhile Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond.

An Ofcom spokesperson said: "We are investigating whether this programme broke our rules requiring quality and existent affairs to beryllium presented with owed impartiality."

The occurrence from 2 April received 2 complaints successful narration to a treatment astir the Scottish National Party (SNP).

The rules astir politicians presenting programmes were introduced successful 2005.

They accidental politicians are not usually allowed to beryllium newsreaders, interviewers oregon reporters successful quality programmes, but tin beforehand existent affairs shows.

"Given the emergence successful the fig of existent affairs programmes presented by sitting politicians and caller nationalist involvement successful this issue, we are conducting caller probe to gauge existent assemblage attitudes towards these programmes," it said past month.

The findings volition beryllium published aboriginal this year.