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Andrew Neil on GB News: 'I was minority of one'

Ex-GB News presenter Andrew Neil has spoken on BBC Question Time about his reasons for leaving the channel.

He was responding to an audience member, who asked if his and other recent resignations would lead to GB News becoming "a new, British, Fox News".

The former BBC presenter said he left due to differences between himself and other senior managers over the direction the channel was taking, which left him in a "minority of one".

Read more: Andrew Neil: I was minority of one at GB News

16 September 2021

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