GB News is rapped by Ofcom again after one of its programmes promotes the channel’s Don’t Kill Cash campaign

• Watchdog found channel had breached two parts of the Broadcasting Code

Under-fire GB News received its latest official reprimand yesterday after one of its programmes promoted the channel’s Don’t Kill Cash campaign.

The campaign called on the Government to ‘introduce legislation to protect the status of cash as legal tender and as a widely accepted means of payment in the UK until at least 2050’.

But industry watchdog Ofcom ruled an episode of The Live Desk, shown on July 7, breached two parts of the Broadcasting Code on due impartiality.

The programme invited viewers to sign a petition and discussed the problems of a cashless society. 

GB News is under fire from Ofcom for its ‘don’t kill cash’ campaign, to protect cash as legal tender in the UK until at least 2050 (File Image)

But Ofcom found the channel had breached two parts of the Broadcasting Code on due impartiality, after GB News only ‘offered limited references to different perspectives’ on a matter of political controversy and current policy (File Image)

Ofcom found the topic was a matter of political controversy and current public policy as Parliament was passing a Bill on it at the time.

GB News offered ‘only limited references to different perspectives,’ the ruling said.

It is the fifth time the channel has been rapped for failing to follow such rules since its launch two years ago. Ofcom is running five more probes involving Don’t Kill Cash.

The network said: ‘We maintain our campaign was not political and so did not consider it invoked due impartiality rules.’

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