Ofcom launches investigations into anti-LGBTQ+ hate speech on GB News following thousands of complaints
Broadcast regulator Ofcom has launched investigations into anti-LGBTQ+ attacks on GB News following complaints by Good Law Project and 15,000 members of the public.
The Good Law Project complaint relates to a broadcast of Alex Armstrong Tonight on 5 July 2026. Over 12,000 members of the public wrote their own complaints about this incident and a further 3,000 complaints were submitted about a similar incident on Saturday Five, broadcast on 20 June 2026, following a campaign by Drag Race star Bimini and influencer Liam Rondi.
On Alex Armstrong Tonight, the host Alex Armstrong was joined by Caroline Farrow (UK and Ireland campaigns director at CitizenGO) and Matthew Hulbert (a former Liberal Democrat councillor).
They discussed a segment called “Is Pride suitable for families”. The discussion revolved around dangerous tropes fabricating links between LGBTQ+ people, paedophilia and bestiality.
Now, Ofcom has announced it is opening a standards investigation into the incident, following a detailed Good Law Project complaint that argued that “the statements are blatantly homophobic” and were made “with the effect of promoting hate towards the LGBTQ+ community”.
These are the second and third investigations into anti-LGBTQ+ attacks on GB News in two years. In February 2025, a GB News presenter suggested that the LGBTQ+ community included paedophiles and after Ofcom received 70,000 complaints it found GB News to have breached the broadcasting code. But Ofcom took no further action against the broadcaster because, in the face of significant public pressure, GB News made a grovelling on-air apology.
Good Law Project lawyer Matt Gill said: “The hateful trope about LGBTQ+ people broadcast by GB News puts the community at risk.
“When GB News tried to make a link between LGBTQ+ people and paedophilia before, Ofcom found the broadcast was highly offensive and yet did nothing about it. The regulator must impose meaningful sanctions to stop this rogue channel repeating these vicious lies again and again.”
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