GB News to launch legal action against Ofcom - 'We will NOT be silenced!'

Britain's News Channel claimed the decisions "go against journalists and broadcasters rights to make editorial judgements in line with the law."

A GB News spokesman said: "GB News has begun the formal legal process of challenging recent Ofcom decisions which go against journalists’ and broadcasters' rights to make their own editorial judgements in line with the law and which also go against Ofcom’s own rules.

"Ofcom is obliged by law to uphold freedom of expression.

"Ofcom is also obliged to apply its rules fairly and lawfully. We believe that, for some time now, Ofcom has been operating in the exact opposite manner.

"We cannot allow freedom of expression and media freedom to be trampled on in this way.

"Freedom of the press is a civil right established by the British in the seventeenth century with the abolition of censorship and licensing of the printing press.

"We refuse to stand by and allow this right to be threatened. As the People’s Channel we champion this freedom; for our viewers, for our listeners, for everyone in the United Kingdom."

Ofcom has ruled against GB News on multiple occasions with the latest for its coverage of the People's Forum: The Prime Minister.

The media watchdog ruled that while it had no issue with the programme's format in principle, an "appropriately wide range of significant viewpoints was not presented" - despite 14 of the 15 questions asked being highly critical of the Government.

The media watchdog also upheld complaints across five other shows hosted by Tory MPs Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, Esther McVey and Phillip Davies.

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