16 Jul 2021
The Andrew Neil-run GB News, which touted itself as the ‘anti-woke’ antidote to the mainstream media, has apologised after one of its presenters took the Black Lives Matter-inspired knee on air in response to racist abuse directed at three black England players on social media after Italy defeated the team in the Euro 2020 finals on Sunday.
The move came after reports that since the Marxist-linked gesture was made, some broadcasts on GB News had attracted zero viewers according to the industry-standard Barb figures.
On Tuesday’s show co-host Guto Harri, a former BBC journalist and Boris Johnson’s former spin doctor, told fellow host Mercy Muroki and GB News viewers as he positioned himself at the front of the set and got down on one knee: “With the benefit of hindsight, I may have underestimated how close to the surface the racism still was.
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Former international development secretary Andrew Mitchell has tabled an amendment to reverse the reduction of the government’s target of 0.7% of gross national income (GNI) to 0.5% - which equates to more than £4bn.
Former health secretary Jeremy Hunt and former Brexit secretary David Davis are among the senior Conservatives backing the move to restore aid spending to the previous target from next January.
Arguments for the cuts
The Covid contraction
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has said the decision to cut the aid budget, first announced in November, was “extremely difficult” but necessary, owing to the unforeseeable cost of dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic.