- By Emma Saunders
- Culture reporter
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Sir Jacob hosts State of the Nation each Monday to Thursday night on GB News
Media watchdog Ofcom has launched an investigation right into a current episode of Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg’s GB News show.
The 9 May episode of State of the Nation featured the MP masking a breaking information story a few civil trial verdict involving Donald Trump.
The regulator acquired 40 complaints.
Ofcom stated: “We are investigating whether this programme broke our rules, which prevent politicians from acting as newsreaders, unless exceptionally, it is editorially justified.”
Serving politicians are, nevertheless, allowed to host present affairs reveals, so long as a variety of views are mirrored.
Sir Jacob, a former cupboard minister, hosts the hour-long night show from Mondays to Thursdays.
Meanwhile, the regulator may also investigate an episode of a Talk TV show offered by former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond.
An Ofcom spokesperson stated: “We are investigating whether this programme broke our rules requiring news and current affairs to be presented with due impartiality.”
The episode from 2 April acquired two complaints in relation to a dialogue in regards to the Scottish National Party (SNP).
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Philip Davies and Esther McVey are husband and spouse, GB News co-hosts and sitting MPs
The guidelines round politicians presenting programmes have been launched in 2005.
They say politicians are usually not usually allowed to be newsreaders, interviewers or reporters in information programmes, however can entrance present affairs reveals.
“Given the rise in the number of current affairs programmes presented by sitting politicians and recent public interest in this issue, we are conducting new research to gauge current audience attitudes towards these programmes,” it stated final month.
The findings will likely be printed later this 12 months.
