Ofcom said it received 547 complaints about the live current affairs programme with the Prime Minister
The watchdog said of the event, broadcast in February: “Given this represents a serious and repeated breach of these rules, we are now starting the process for consideration of a statutory sanction againstThe threat of sanctions arrives weeks after the broadcast regulator concluded that the channel broke rules banning politicians from acting as newsreaders on five occasions involving the MPs Jacob Rees-Mogg, Esther McVey and Philip Davies.
It featured Sunak, in a question-and-answer session with a studio audience about the Government’s policies and performance, presented in the context of the forthcoming UK General Election. Ofcom said: “The Prime Minister was able to set out future policies that his Government planned to implement, if re-elected in the forthcoming UK General Election. Neither the audience nor the Presenter challenged or otherwise referred to significant alternative views on these.”’s approach to compliance to be wholly insufficient, and consider it could have, and should have, taken additional steps to mitigate these risks.
“As a result, we consider that the Prime Minister had a mostly uncontested platform to promote the policies and performance of his Government in a period preceding a UK General Election.”GB Newss “failure to preserve due impartiality in this case to be serious and – given its two previous breaches of these rules – repeated. We are therefore now starting our process for consideration of a statutory sanction againstSanctions can include a financial penalty.
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