‘Good Morning Britain’ Gets 2,400 Complaints After Host Richard Madeley Asked UK Lawmaker If She Was Warned About Hamas’ Attack On Israel
deadline.comUK media regulator Ofcom has revealed that it received nearly 2,400 complaints after Good Morning Britain presenter Richard Madeley asked a British lawmaker with family in Gaza if there was “any word on the street” before Hamas launched its attack on Israel.
Madeley questioned Liberal Democrat MP Layla Moran on October 17, asking: “With your family connections in Gaza, did you have any indication of what was going to happen 10 days ago, two weeks ago?
Was there there any word on the street?” Moran replied: “Not this, not this. I think everyone… everyone has been surprised by, first of all, partly the timing, the sophistication [and] the way that it’s happened.” Richard Madeley asks British Palestinian MP Layla Moran if she or her family knew about Hamas's attack before it happened #GMB pic.twitter.com/guUptvdlGk The exchange sparked 2,378 complaints, making Good Morning Britain ITV’s second most complained-about show of 2023.
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