GB News should lose its licence, says ex-Sky News editor Adam Boulton | GB News
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/may/14/gb-news-lose-licence-adam-boulton-ofcom-impartiality-rules
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GB News should lose its licence, says ex-Sky News editor Adam Boulton | GB News
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/may/14/gb-news-lose-licence-adam-boulton-ofcom-impartiality-rules
Posted by HeadBat1863
18 Comments
Well yes obviously. We have rules about how broadcasters have to behave in this country and they make no effort to follow them. If they want to be an American style news channel with American values and standards then they should broadcast in America not Britain.
Should have never been given a licence in the first place
Yes, absolutely. It’s a scandal that Ofcom hasn’t done anything about their obvious bias.
It’s a total joke, presented and part owned by the man who wants be the next PM, quite why we are allowing this tinpot burslisconi access to so much influence is beyond me.
Yes and nothing will be done about it because we’re in the ‘Biden’ phase of re*ardation where we say ‘oh but that’s breaking the rules, somebody will stop them somewhere because that’s naughty!’ Before we realise that right wing lunatics like Farage will steamroll in and we did nothing to prevent it hoping they’d be honest
GB News, or any newspaper, should adhere to certain laws around telling the truth or be advertised as such. You shouldn’t be able to be called a newspaper if you are 70% fiction and you shouldn’t be called a news channel if you are hosted by MP’s
Or…
They should be forced to play Benny Hill music every time one of them opens their mouths.
It should firstly not be allowed to be called news.
The end is near, the fall of the BBC should be celebrated as a national holiday.
Think of all the young minds that will be saved from the BBC’s cleansing
What should happen is Channel 4 give Zack Polanski an hour every week and the BBC give say Andy Burnham an hour on TV every week. Reform would scream the house down.
I agree that GB News has so many problems that we could make a long list, however I do roll my eyes at who made the comment. I watch Sky News daily and just last night was watching a discussion which included Adam Boulton. He was annoying me at the time for his constant stream of biased digs and insults at people he doesn’t like. Most of these comments were aimed at the Tories and Reform and a few at the Greens. Some of them about both political sides were a bit funny but I was not impressed with his professionalism. He wasn’t pointing out flaws in their policies or anything legally they were doing wrong. It wasn’t anything better than the schoolboy insults you see in The Commons. For a man at the top of his field presenting national news headlines you are supposed to be unbiased, discussing the deadlines should involve facts and evidence not speculation, labelling parties things they are not, insulting their appearances etc. He was no better than GB News, Fox, or CNN.
Too late now. The genie is out of the bottle, the toothpaste can’t be put back in the tube etc. Any attempt to shut it down now will just see uproar from the cretins that consume it and hand yet another win to Reform, what with it being thier defacto ‘news’ provider.
Yup. If Starmer had any balls he’d have leant on Ofcom to get them and TalkTV taken off the air.
If we started removing licences from biased media in the UK, there’d be no media left. Hey, at least we wouldn’t have to pay for a TV licence any more.
Sky News is hardly much better these days; albeit that’s happen more since he’s left.
Sam Coates is a huge right-wing ideologue who’s been relentlessly trying to make controversies out of nothing.
Even the other day he was saying the government was pushing “propaganda photos” and “fake news” of Starmer simply because it was a photo of him smiling which then turned out to be from the Press Association. No apology of course.
Oh so just because they deliberately spread misinformation, repeatedly break regulations, have a clear political bias and acts as a PR team for a sitting MP/party leader the should lose its licence.
PC gone made. /s
GB news is the propaganda arm of Reform, all the funding goes back to the same sources.
They lose around £130m a year, but it doesn’t matter because it’s agenda is all about promoting its political arm Reform.
Send them all to jail the lot of them, including the dodgy millionaires that are funding this entire con.
Beggar’s belief that andrew neil threw away his entire career and reputation for GB News
Agree it’s not even news, it has to call itself entertainment and idiots still fall for it. The government needs to crack down on media that lie and spread misinformation. I don’t mean in a dystopian way. Fines, court proceedings, loss of license ect.