Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer appeared on C4's Sunday Brunch, showcasing his cooking skills by preparing tandoori salmon. This public appearance aimed to present a more relatable and personable side of Starmer, contrasting with government ministers' demeanor. Starmer's participation in the show sparked discussions about media bias and impartiality, particularly in light of recent regulatory decisions affecting GB News.
If those same 15 questions had been asked by Labour Party MPs at PMQs no one would have batted an eyelid - they were harsh, robust and uncompromising. Ofcom's decision to pursue this is simply baffling. https://t.co/UP9MtoJ9qe
To Ofcom, both of these examples are fine but a politician being grilled by an audience on GB News isn’t. 🥴 https://t.co/2xXFF0GT0r
To Ofcom, both of these are fine but a politician being grilled by an audience on GB News isn’t. 🥴 https://t.co/3EOJ8XSwwA
This is bonkers. I was at the GB News People's Forum. The audience was impartial (if not hostile against Sunak). GB News did NOT see questions beforehand. And they've invited Starmer & Davey to People's Forums. Is OBVIOUSLY a witch-hunt against GB News https://t.co/yFmqiDCZ3z
So according to Ofcom a politician being questioned by a panel of ordinary voters is unacceptable, but a politician cooking tandoori salmon on Sunday Brunch is fine?
🇬🇧 @GBNEWS held a forum where the public questioned PM @RishiSunak, 14 out of 15 were hostile. Still, it has not stopped @Ofcom censoring the channel on the basis of breaching the rules “due impartiality”. Sir @Keir_Starmer declined to appear. Ofcom is horribly biased.… https://t.co/vCzSOEoVzd
When I appear on GB News, @GBNEWS there is ALWAYS at least one other panellist expressing the opposite political point of view. The worst, least impartial broadcasting experience I had was on @BBCRadio4 Any Questions when the audience was a busload of Corbynists. As for… https://t.co/lzW6OgApJX
Glad to see people are really getting their money's worth here. I assume @SundayBrunchC4 will be under investigation next because the curry didn't challenge Labour's new pledges or address the needs of vegans. Voters not good enough but apparently a salmon fillet does the job https://t.co/tb37hZfHTf
The People’s Channel @GBNEWS hits back at ‘ALARMING’ Ofcom ruling on People’s Forum: ‘We will never stop fighting to be the voice of the people’ #GBNews #News https://t.co/c61tq8uDc0
What tosh. The studio audience grilled Sunak, and was FAR more impartial than those we see every week on BBC Question Time. This is just the establishment lining up to bully a channel it doesn't much like intto submission. Stick to your guns @GBNEWS! Millions are behind you! https://t.co/rt0ZyHmgp9
How on earth Ofcom has sanctioned GB News for allowing viewers to ask their questions to the Prime Minister defies logic. Especially when the channel has offered Starmer the same chance. All while Ofcom appears silent over LBC presenters like David Lammy and Carol Vorderman.
This is ridiculous. It seems every time I turn on @LBC there’s a politician hosting, while MP colleagues are ‘interviewed’ @RishiSunak wasn’t soft-soaped on @GBNEWS They were real people with 14/15 hostile Qs @Ofcom can simply decide later that there wasn’t enough challenge? https://t.co/AHEAZCGS26
Strange and arbitrary ruling from Ofcom that reeks of a "people like us" insider bias rather than objective benchmarks. This was an experimental format not within an election period and clearly not designed to give the subject an easy ride. https://t.co/bysZkePDGi
OFCOM BIASED AGAIN? It's absurd that @Ofcom found that the @GBNEWS People's Forum with @RishiSunak lacked an "appropriately wide range of significant views” 14/15 questions were hostile - from a politically balanced audience, independently selected by a polling organisation! https://t.co/niAl922CCF
GBNews responds to the frankly baffling decision of the regulator to decree a programme whereby undecided voters question the Prime Minister as 'not compliant.' Even more bemusing given that the Labour Party leader was approached by GBN before the PM re: this same format. https://t.co/wC9LP4IT9G
Keir Starmer went on C4's Sunday Brunch, and made tandoori salmon. So... recipes for politicians please?
Starmer tries to curry favour with electorate through Sunday Brunch tandoori https://t.co/UboaCF4Uxm
Er, is that vegetarian, Keir? Starmer whips up tandoori salmon on C4's Sunday Brunch... after it emerged he tucked into chicken curry while out campaigning https://t.co/loQXXjkJSV https://t.co/c0XKtfH5JO
Sir Keir Starmer was awkwardly asked "what are you doing here?" in awkward scenes on Sunday Brunch today. https://t.co/JoZE8Qjcvt
Labour leader Sir @Keir_Starmer has prepared a tandoori salmon meal on a TV cookery programme ✍️: @GeoLithgow https://t.co/OVRiTMweO8
Sunday Brunch host Tim Lovejoy asks guest 'what are you doing here' in awkward swipe https://t.co/RzOhEsHH3p
Not my normal Sunday morning interview… A pleasure to share the story behind my tandoori salmon recipe with Tim and Simon on @SundayBrunchC4 before heading to the Emirates this afternoon. https://t.co/prKnVOc4bm
Labour on TV this morning: Starmer cooking and Streeting self-deprecating. There's a lightness to the party at the moment which contrasts with the seething end-of-Rome anxiety of government ministers. https://t.co/xNCbv7zJai
Starmer does this chattier stuff really well, (cf. the ITV Life Stories interview fairly early on in his leadership, the various podcasts he does), and Labour will try to make sure that's most of how we hear from him during this very long election campaign. https://t.co/DoqQJNuV6y
🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer cooking tandoori salmon on Sunday Brunch https://t.co/GH4P6082u0
Love having @Keir_Starmer in my living room this morning via @SundayBrunchC4 👨🍳🍣 He’s doing what he loves - cooking, chatting about the family & of course football! He’s genuinely a nice bloke, and it’s great that more people are able to get to see this 📺 #SundayBrunch https://t.co/NJlMQbeBe2
Slightly surreal, Keir Starmer is on Sunday Brunch on C4 atm, cooking tandoori salmon. Have to say he is coming over very well - far better and more normal than Sunak when he tries these things. One of the best 'being normal' attempts I've seen.
EXCL....It's another Labour U-turn! Vegetarian Party leader Keir Starmer makes bombshell confession that he ate a box of chicken after a long night on the campaign trail Sir Kiev Starmer! 🍗🍗🍗 https://t.co/jKUuMFMbKr