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GB News critics want to limit free speech to ‘liberal, Islington consensus’, Grade says

Lord Michael Grade gestures with his hand raised while speaking against a purple backdrop
Michael Grade dismissed claims he had failed to understand the impartiality rules Ofcom was tasked with upholding. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Critics of GB News are part of a “liberal, Islington consensus” bent on limiting freedom of expression, Michael Grade, the recently departed chair of Britain’s media watchdog, has said.

The Conservative peer, whose time at Ofcom has been criticised over the handling of the rightwing news channel, said he welcomed the arrival of the broadcaster five years ago in the name of “plurality”.

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