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Five GB News programmes presented by Tory MPs broke impartiality rules, Ofcom says

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Five episodes of GB News programmes presented by Tory MPs were found by Ofcom to have broken broadcasting rules.

Two episodes of Jacob Rees-Mogg’s State Of The Nation, two of Friday Morning With Esther And Phil, and one of Saturday Morning With Esther And Phil, broadcast during May and June 2023, broke due impartiality rules, Ofcom said.

It comes six months after the regulator found an episode of GB News’s The Live Desk, aired in July 2023, broke the same rules.

And earlier this month, the channel Ofcom after it ruled made by Laurence Fox on his show had broken broadcasting rules that protect “viewers from offensive content”.

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