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The Guardian - UK
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Aletha Adu

GB News broke impartiality rules when Tory MPs interviewed Hunt, Ofcom finds

Jeremy Hunt leaving Downing Street.
The interview with Jeremy Hunt ‘failed to represent a wide range of significant views’, Ofcom found. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

GB News breached impartiality rules when two Conservative MPs interviewed the chancellor before the spring budget and “failed to represent a wide range of significant views”, Ofcom has found.

Esther McVey, a former pensions minister, and her husband Philip Davies, a longstanding MP, were accused of hosting a “love-in” interview with Jeremy Hunt on 11 March for their weekly morning show on the channel.

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