Andrew Neil aims fresh swipe at GB News after celebrating '6 wonderful months' since exit

express.co.uk:

Andrew Neil, who is chairman of the Spectator Magazine Group, has again publicly denounced GB News, declaring the months since he left have been "wonderful".The ex-editor of The Sunday Times took to the social media site to clarify his feelings after fielding a string of online comments about the beleaguered channel, during a day when he'd even threatened to file writs against tweeters."What was GB News the broadcasting arm of?" follower @edgregson quizzed of the presenter and publisher."Profit before news?

Manufactured outrage?"He then added: "News is expensive, opinion is free."However an irate Andrew quickly tweeted back: "Ask GB News.

I stopped broadcasting for it 6 wonderful months ago, for well publicised reasons."The veteran presenter had stepped down from his duties just weeks after the channel's launch in June 2021.At the start of his venture, Andrew promised a unique channel which would refuse to "slavishly follow the existing news agenda".He had pledged to followers that he would bring to the forefront “a huge range of voices that reflect the views and values of our United Kingdom” and that he would publish “the stories that matter to you and those that have been neglected”.However within a startlingly short period of time, he had backtracked on his commitment to the channel altogether.Andrew had revealed to Question Time that the channel had not been a great success and that he questioned whether others were on board with his hopes about its future."More and more differences emerged between myself and the other senior managers and the board of GB News,” he elaborated.“Rather than these differences narrowing, they got wider and wider and I felt it was best that if that’s the route they wanted to take then.