BBC staff described GB News as “the opposition”, leaked messages reveal. A GB News investigation found that a BBC employee wrote to his colleagues: “It used to be that ITV was the opposition. Then Sky came along and that was the opposition. Then GB News came along…” The comment, seen by GB News, was made in January on an internal BBC chat forum called Slack, and was available for all staff to view. Another BBC employee criticised broadcasters for “regularly [giving] a platform for the likes of Farage without context”. Harrison Pitt, a senior editor at The European Conservative and a political …
