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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Vanessa Thorpe

‘It’s crunch time’: GB News bosses meet to avert more censure after Ofcom inquiries

Angelos Frangopoulos, chief executive of GB news, in a glass-walled office at the channel's studios.
Angelos Frangopoulos, chief executive of GB news, announced an investigation into Laurence Fox and Dan Wootton’s attack on the journalist Ava Evans. Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Observer

The leadership of the rightwing TV channel GB News is trying urgently to avert fresh public censure following the Laurence Fox and Dan Wootton debacle, the Observer has learned.

Under scrutiny are a number of incidents, including last week’s crude, on-air attack on the journalist Ava Evans by the actor and pundit Fox, and Friday’s interview of Suella Braverman, the home secretary, conducted by the deputy chair of her own party, the Conservative MP Lee Anderson.

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