Andrew Neil says he didn’t want GB News to be ’outlet for bizarre conspiracy theories’

Former GB News presenter Andrew Neil has claimed he rapidly quit the fledgling broadcaster because he saw it becoming “an outlet for bizarre conspiracy theories” at “the nutty end of politics”. The veteran journalist, who left GB News within weeks of it going on air in 2021, told the House of Lords on Tuesday that he was surprised the channel “has survived as long” as it has – and said he found it “very hard to see how it can ever be profitable or even break even”. And the 74-year-old urged regulator Ofcom “to find a backbone – and quick” on the issue of GB News choosing to have sitting Conservative MPs presenting politics programmes, and interviewing members of their own party. Watch more on Independent TV: Click here to subscribe to The Independent: About The Independent: Making Change Happen. The Independent is the world’s most free-thinking newsbrand, providing global news, commenta