Britain’s broadcasting regulator is under mounting pressure to investigate a GB News interview with Donald Trump, after critics claimed the channel failed to challenge a series of misleading and inaccurate assertions made by the US president.
The interview, aired in November and billed by GB News as a “world exclusive sit-down”, featured Trump repeating long-disputed claims that human-induced climate change is “a hoax”, alongside assertions that London contains police “no-go areas” governed by “sharia law”.
Campaigners and media experts argue that these claims were either left unchallenged or actively reinforced by the interviewer, Bev Turner, raising questions about compliance with UK broadcasting rules on accuracy and due impartiality.
The controversy has prompted multiple formal complaints to Ofcom, including three detailed submissions co-signed by tens of thousands of viewers. While Ofcom officials are understood to be reviewing the complaints, the regulator has yet to confirm whether a formal investigation will be launched.
Among those urging action is Chris Banatvala, Ofcom’s founding director of standards, who described the broadcast as unprecedented for a UK-licensed domestic channel.
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