Labour peer Lord George Foulkes and GB News presenter Ben Leo clashed in a heated exchange after Lord Foulkes directly accused GB News of being "a front for Reform UK".
The accusation came as the two discussed Prime Minister Keir Starmer's response to the crisis in Ukraine, and his efforts to forge a peace deal.
Ben questioned what Starmer had achieved beyond making "a speech at the despatch box" before going to "a posh dinner somewhere with all the leaders".
Labour Peer, Lord George Faulkes said: "Just because they don't support GB News. You're really a front for Reform UK.
"We all know that, and I am doing you a nice favour by coming on and talking to you as you need some balance."
Ben interrupted: "Let me respond, George. So for the first year or two of GB News, we were called Tory TV. Then the haters call us a front for Reform.
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"I mean, you've got the likes of Miriam Cates here, who I don't think is a big fan of Reform.
"She's penned columns on the website saying saying how that they don't really have many policies. That only time will tell whether they're capable of Government. I don't believe she thinks they are.
"You've got the likes of Gloria De Piero, the former Labour MP. Jacob Rees-Mogg.
"I mean, what makes you think that this is Reform TV?"
Faulkes responded: "Maybe because Farage is one of your regular presenters, and maybe because of the things you say.
"Maybe because he says things that support your station. I don't know, I think a lot of other people come round to the same point."
Ben said: "Sounds a bit flimsy, George."
He said: "Ben, you're doing a good job so far, except I listened to you earlier and I was counting the mistakes, the factual mistakes you made. I think I got up to 25."
Ben then demanded he went through the mistakes with him, to which the Labour peer said: "Well, you said 4,000 pensioners had died because of the Winter Fuel Payment cut. "
Ben fumed: "Let me interrupt you there, I said by Labour's own research, your own party Lord Foulkes when they were in opposition commissioned their own research, said that if the Tories scrap the winter fuel allowance, up to 4000 pensioners would die.
"That was your party, my good friend."
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The accusation came as the two discussed Prime Minister Keir Starmer's response to the crisis in Ukraine, and his efforts to forge a peace deal.
Ben questioned what Starmer had achieved beyond making "a speech at the despatch box" before going to "a posh dinner somewhere with all the leaders".
Labour Peer, Lord George Faulkes said: "Just because they don't support GB News. You're really a front for Reform UK.
"We all know that, and I am doing you a nice favour by coming on and talking to you as you need some balance."
Ben interrupted: "Let me respond, George. So for the first year or two of GB News, we were called Tory TV. Then the haters call us a front for Reform.
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"I mean, you've got the likes of Miriam Cates here, who I don't think is a big fan of Reform.
"She's penned columns on the website saying saying how that they don't really have many policies. That only time will tell whether they're capable of Government. I don't believe she thinks they are.
"You've got the likes of Gloria De Piero, the former Labour MP. Jacob Rees-Mogg.
"I mean, what makes you think that this is Reform TV?"
Faulkes responded: "Maybe because Farage is one of your regular presenters, and maybe because of the things you say.
"Maybe because he says things that support your station. I don't know, I think a lot of other people come round to the same point."
Ben said: "Sounds a bit flimsy, George."
He said: "Ben, you're doing a good job so far, except I listened to you earlier and I was counting the mistakes, the factual mistakes you made. I think I got up to 25."
Ben then demanded he went through the mistakes with him, to which the Labour peer said: "Well, you said 4,000 pensioners had died because of the Winter Fuel Payment cut. "
Ben fumed: "Let me interrupt you there, I said by Labour's own research, your own party Lord Foulkes when they were in opposition commissioned their own research, said that if the Tories scrap the winter fuel allowance, up to 4000 pensioners would die.
"That was your party, my good friend."
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