AN SNP MP was cut off during a BBC interview when he brought up the Byline Times investigation into suspended GB News presenter Dan Wootton.
The broadcaster previously admitted to “errors of judgement in the past” on his show amid reports he offered media colleagues thousands of pounds for explicit material of themselves.
However, he also denied any criminality and said he was the victim of a “witch hunt” by “nefarious players”.
Wootton was suspended from GB News on Wednesday following comments made by Laurence Fox about journalist Ava Evans on his show.
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During an interview with Radio 4 about GB News, SNP MP John Nicolson started to say he was “very interested in the investigation by Byline Times” and described it as a “very good piece of journalism”.
However, host Evan Davis interrupted and said: “I don’t want to go into unrelated issues.”
John Nicolson(SNP MP) tries to bring up the @BylineTimes investigation into Dan Wootton.
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Nicolson tried to continue to make his point, but Davis continued to speak over him and then asked: “Is there a danger in your position that Ofcom are kind of, you’re wanting Ofcom to censor channels that take opinions and give platform to opinions that you really don’t like?”
The MP replied: “I don’t want censorship. I want Ofcom to enforce its own rules. And the point I was going to make is you said that the channel had responded by suspending Dan Wootton.
“And the point I was going to make was that there had been serious accusations about Dan Wootton for some time which had received remarkably little coverage in the press and which are worthy of investigation.”
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Davis said that was “not what we’re discussing” but Nicolson then replied: “Well it’s relevant because he’s a presenter on the channel and he’s now been suspended.”
The host then ended the conversation and said: “We’ll leave it there.”
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