If you have not been watching GB News as much as I have in the past week, you may well not hold the belief that a principal focus of the world’s current affairs is the village of Kegworth in Leicestershire.
A fortnight ago, a hotel in the village was taken over by Home Office agencies to house 250 asylum seekers. GB News led on those reports, and then provided rolling news coverage of subsequent small-scale local protests, with a series of often repeated and tweeted interviews with villagers, and a livestream from outside the parish council meeting in the pub. This content was then used to fuel the on-screen debate to support what might be the unofficial slogan of the channel: “Not far right, just right.”
