Those who despise right-leaning GB News need no reason to attack it—some started boycotting before it had the chance to launch. But the British television channel, which has been running for just over two years, this week succeeded in handing over a good stock of ammunition, anyway.
‘Reclaim’ party leader Laurence Fox can always be relied upon to say something provocative (that is, offensive), which is surely why GB News hired him as a host and why he is often invited onto the channel for interviews. Talking to Dan Wootton, one of the station’s most high-profile presenters, on Tuesday evening, he asked of a young female journalist: “Who would want to s**g that?” Ava Evans, at whom Fox’s blatantly sexist comments were directed, said this has prompted her to receive threats.
