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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Heather Stewart

Conspiracy theories, Moggologues and ‘zombie’ stats: all in a week’s work for GB News

Jacob Rees-Mogg
The former cabinet minister Jacob Rees-Mogg has his own show, with one panel including his own sister. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

Rishi Sunak came to power in an “anti-democratic coup,” and is in hock to a shadowy “globalist elite”; mass migration is “replacing” British culture, and net zero is a “suicide note” – not the rantings of an internet troll, but a snapshot of views espoused by presenters on GB News across seven days last week.

The Guardian watched a week’s worth of output from the upstart rightwing channel in an attempt to understand the worldview at work – and how GB News gets away with sailing so close to the wind.

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