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Andrew Neil rips into GB News ‘smears and lies’

Neil resigned from GB News last week, saying he did not want to work for a "British Fox News".

Henry Goodwin by Henry Goodwin
2021-09-23 11:41
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Andrew Neil has ripped into GB News, accusing the controversial of leaking “smears” to a newspaper.

The former BBC journalist resigned as the chairman and lead presenter of GB News last week, saying he did not want to be associated with a “British Fox News”.

And, on Wednesday evening, Neil launched a broadside at the new channel over his exit – and claimed he would never appear on the show again.

He tweeted: “After weeks of talks with @GBNEWS, resulting in exit settlement, the channel then broke it by briefing Mail on Sunday with load of smears/lies then unilaterally cancelling exit deal. 

“Leaving me free to do, say whatever I want + never again be on GBNews. Couldn’t be happier.”

After weeks of talks with @GBNEWS, resulting in exit settlement, the channel then broke it by briefing Mail on Sunday with load of smears/lies then unilaterally cancelling exit deal. Leaving me free to do, say whatever I want + never again be on GBNews. Couldn’t be happier.

— Andrew Neil (@afneil) September 22, 2021

Neil’s resignation has been seen as a hammer blow for GB News, which launched only three months ago.

The 72-year-old took an extended break from his flagship show on the network – having been on air for less than two weeks.

During an appearance on BBC’s Question Times last week, Neil said the channel had in gone a different direction than he had envisaged.

https://twitter.com/PoliticsForAlI/status/1438796629428027400

“I had always made it clear that it wouldn’t be a British Fox News and I think you could do something different without going anywhere near Fox,” he said.

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“Fox deals in untruths, it deals in conspiracy theories and it deals in fake news. That’s not my kind of journalism and I would never have set out to do that.”

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