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GB News POLITICAL

POLITICAL AUDIT UPDATED 2026-10-09
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Request: 45191d01-4f38-4989-8349-b3b0f84aa4cd Research date: 8 October 2026 Target: GB News / GB News Limited (company 12859339), with parent All Perspectives Ltd (company 12227760).

Scope and attribution

GB News Limited is an active UK private company engaged in television programming and broadcasting.1 Companies House records All Perspectives Ltd as GB News Limited’s sole active person with significant control, with 75% or more of shares and voting rights and the right to appoint or remove directors; the public PSC record does not state an exact 100% holding.2 GB News Limited’s current directors are Angelos Frangopoulos and Marc Schipper.3 Its filing history includes full accounts to 31 May 2025 filed in March 2026 and a later shortening of the accounting period to 31 December 2025.4

[pre-2020] All Perspectives Ltd was incorporated on 25 September 2019; its relationship to GB News is current.5 Its current PSC register records Sir Paul Marshall with more than 25% but not more than 50% of shares and votes, and Philip Vassiliou, Richard Douglas and Christopher Chandler through significant influence or control over trustees of trusts.6 Current All Perspectives directors are Lord Theodore Agnew, Matthew Linnell, Alan McCormick and Baroness Helena Morrissey.7 Its filing history shows continuing group filings through 2026.8 A 2026 Press Gazette report, citing the group’s annual report, described All Perspectives as continuing to underwrite GB News losses and described Paul Marshall and Legatum Ventures as the two main shareholder blocs; for formal control ranges this audit uses the current Companies House PSC record.9

For editorial attribution, CEO Angelos Frangopoulos told a House of Lords committee in March 2024 that GB News separates news bulletins from current-affairs/opinion programming, with a separate news team subject to news impartiality rules.10 Ofcom separately explains that, for its Rule 5.4 purposes, the “person providing the service” means the licensee, company officers and people with editorial responsibility, rather than presenters or guests merely appearing on programmes.11 This audit therefore does not convert presenter, guest or interviewee views into corporate positions without separate evidence.

Corporate Communications & Public Stance

Statements

2024, ongoing editorial framework. Frangopoulos told Parliament that GB News sees itself as a challenger serving “mainstream Britain,” that it operates under an editorial charter, and that it separates news from current affairs/opinion.10 no public evidence identified in the corporate and regulatory sources reviewed of an official GB News Limited statement endorsing the Israeli government’s conduct of the Gaza war, endorsing Hamas, endorsing settlement expansion, or adopting a corporate position for or against Palestinian statehood.10, 11

2025 Israel expansion statement. On 26 September 2025, GB News launched on Cellcom TV in Israel. Frangopoulos described the launch as a “vital part” of the network’s mission to connect with global audiences seeking British reporting and debate and said GB News was pleased to enter Israeli homes.12 This is an attributable corporate distribution/market-expansion statement; it did not, in the cited report, state a position on the legality of settlements, the Gaza war, Palestinian statehood or Israeli military policy.12

Comparative public posture

GB News has demonstrated that it can adopt channel-level campaigning positions on public-policy questions: Ofcom’s 2023 material records multiple programmes connected to the GB News “Don’t Kill Cash” campaign, while Frangopoulos later told Parliament that the editorial team created and promoted that campaign.10, 11 In the Israel/Gaza material reviewed, I identified extensive reporting and opinion content but no public evidence identified of an equivalent GB News-branded corporate campaign on Palestinian civilian harm, a Gaza ceasefire, Israeli hostages, settlement policy or Palestinian statehood.10, 11

Published Israel/Gaza items must be attributed to their speakers. For example, in October 2025 GB News published Richard Tice saying Labour had “abandoned and betrayed Israel”; the statement was Tice’s, not a GB News corporate declaration.13 The following day it published Conservative MP Alex Burghart welcoming a Gaza ceasefire and aid entry; those were Burghart’s views.14 In January 2025 it also reported pro-Palestinian activists criticising Keir Starmer’s ceasefire statement and vowing to continue marches.15 These examples establish publication choices and speaker attribution, not a single corporate conflict position.

Market framing

The September 2025 Israel launch was framed by GB News’s CEO as part of international audience growth and taking British reporting/debate abroad.12 no public evidence identified in the reviewed filings of GB News describing Israel as a unique geopolitical partnership or security partnership rather than a distribution market.4, 8, 12

Operations in Occupied or Contested Territories

Territorial presence

Israel, from September 2025. GB News was reported as available nationwide in Israel through Cellcom TV.12 The public report establishes a distribution relationship with Cellcom; it does not disclose the commercial terms.12

Occupied Palestinian territory / settlements. No public evidence identified that GB News Limited or All Perspectives itself maintains an office, staff base, transmitter, retail outlet, production facility or settlement-specific service contract in the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem or Golan Heights.16, 17 The sources located also do not establish whether the GB News channel’s Cellcom carriage is technically available in particular settlements.

Legal & regulatory scrutiny; Cellcom intermediary

The UN Human Rights Office’s September 2025 update expanded its database of business enterprises involved in specified settlement-related activities to 158 enterprises.16 A Business & Human Rights Resource Centre summary of that update identifies Cellcom Israel Ltd among the listed enterprises.18 Who Profits separately reports Cellcom communications-infrastructure work and government contracts involving settlements including Efrat, Beit El, Beitar Illit, Givat Ze’ev, Geva Binyamin, Ma’ale Adumim, Ma’ale Ephraim and Kiryat Arba, including contracts and infrastructure activity in 2022–2024.19 AFSC Investigate likewise describes Cellcom antennas and infrastructure serving settlements and includes Cellcom on its divestment shortlist.20

Those Cellcom activities are not attributed to GB News. The verified GB News fact is the 2025 carriage relationship with Cellcom TV.12 no public evidence identified that GB News selected Cellcom in order to support settlement infrastructure, financed Cellcom’s settlement projects, controlled those projects, or contracted directly with an Israeli settlement authority.12, 19, 20

Target-name searches within A/HRC/59/23 did not identify GB News, All Perspectives, Sir Paul Marshall or Christopher Chandler as named entities.17 The reviewed 2025 UN/OHCHR settlement-database materials likewise did not identify GB News Limited or All Perspectives as listed enterprises.16

Civil Society & Boycott Campaign History

No public evidence identified of an organised Israel-Palestine-specific boycott, divestment or sanctions campaign naming GB News Limited or All Perspectives as a target.16, 20, 17 AFSC’s divestment listing concerns Cellcom, the independent distribution intermediary, and is not evidence of a boycott designation for GB News.20

Internal Governance, Content & Retail Policies

Employee Relations

No public evidence identified in the corporate, regulator and news sources reviewed of GB News disciplining, dismissing or suing an employee for pro-Palestinian speech, wearing Palestinian symbols, supporting a ceasefire, union activity relating to Palestine, or comparable Israel-Palestine workplace expression.10, 11, 21

Platform & Editorial Policy

GB News’s own CEO described a structural separation between news and current-affairs/opinion teams in March 2024.10 Ofcom’s Rule 5.4 guidance distinguishes licensee/editorial responsibility from the personal views of presenters and guests.11

On 8 November 2023, the Evening Standard reported that Ofcom had received 373 complaints about the 1 November edition of GBN Tonight, including concerns around impartiality in its Israel/Gaza-related discussion.21 A complaint total is not a breach finding. No public evidence identified in the Ofcom materials reviewed of a final Israel/Gaza-specific impartiality breach decision against GB News arising from that programme.21

For broader governance context, Ofcom imposed a £100,000 sanction on GB News Limited on 31 October 2024 over People’s Forum: The Prime Minister and Rules 5.11/5.12; that case concerned UK political impartiality, not Israel/Palestine.22 Separately, following judicial review, the High Court on 28 February 2025 quashed two different Ofcom politician-presenter breach decisions; Ofcom then withdrew three more such decisions and removed them from GB News’s compliance record.23, 24 These cases are relevant to editorial-regulatory governance but do not establish an Israel/Palestine policy.

Retail & Supply Chain Practices

GB News is a broadcaster rather than a retailer of region-origin goods.1 no public evidence identified of GB News product-labelling, sourcing or retail-categorisation policies concerning Israeli or settlement-origin goods.1

Brand Heritage & State Partnerships

Marketing Positioning

No public evidence identified that GB News markets itself through military heritage, Israeli defence-sector origins, intelligence-service origins or state-security heritage.1, 10 Its 2025 Israel launch was framed as international media distribution and British reporting/debate.12

Institutional Ties & Sponsorships

The verified Israel-side institutional relationship located is commercial distribution through Cellcom TV from September 2025.12 no public evidence identified of a GB News corporate sponsorship of an Israeli government “Brand Israel” campaign, an Israeli state-backed cultural programme, an Israeli university partnership, or a formal non-commercial partnership with the Israeli government or military.12, 17

Lobbying, Advocacy, Financing & Logistics

Political Lobbying

No public evidence identified of GB News Limited or All Perspectives lobbying UK or US authorities for Israeli government policy, anti-BDS legislation, settlement recognition, arms transfers to Israel, or sanctions against Palestinian organisations.2, 6, 17 The channel’s domestic “Don’t Kill Cash” campaign shows that GB News has undertaken a corporate/editorial public-policy campaign in another field; it does not establish Israel-related lobbying.11

Financial Contributions

No public evidence identified of corporate donations or sponsorship by GB News Limited or All Perspectives to the IDF, Friends of the IDF, JNF/KKL, Regavim, Im Tirtzu, settlement councils, Israeli reservist funds or military-welfare bodies.2, 6, 17

Crisis Asset Mobilization

No public evidence identified of GB News providing vehicles, transport, cloud credits, communications infrastructure, free technical services, military equipment or other crisis logistics to the Israeli state, IDF or settlement bodies.12, 17 The Cellcom relationship evidenced is carriage of a news channel, and the located source does not describe military or emergency-service support.12

Corporate Structure & Primary Mission

GB News Limited is privately incorporated in the UK, with All Perspectives recorded as its ≥75% share/vote controller and director-appointment controller.1, 2 All Perspectives is itself a private UK company with the current PSC and board structure described above.5, 6, 7

Sir Paul Marshall resigned as an All Perspectives director on 23 April 2024; a contemporaneous report said he intended to remain “very engaged” as an investor, and the current PSC record still places his share and voting rights in the >25% to ≤50% band.6, 7, 25 Current legal records therefore support continued investor control while distinguishing that from current board membership.6, 7

No public evidence identified of an Israeli state-held golden share, Israeli state ownership, or a founding charter whose primary mandate is to advance Israeli geopolitical or military goals.1, 2, 5, 6 In 2024 parliamentary evidence, Frangopoulos described GB News’s mission in audience and journalism terms.10

Executive & Leadership Footprint

Current controlling/leadership scope

As of 8 October 2026, the formal records reviewed identify Frangopoulos and Schipper as GB News Limited directors; All Perspectives’ current board comprises Agnew, Linnell, McCormick and Morrissey; and its active PSCs are Marshall, Vassiliou, Douglas and Chandler.3, 6, 7 Focused Israel/Gaza searches were conducted for these controlling principals and influential board figures.

Personal Philanthropy & Financing

No public evidence identified from reliable sources reviewed of those current controlling principals making personal or family-office donations to the IDF/FIDF, JNF/KKL, Israeli reservist funds, settlement organisations, Regavim, Im Tirtzu or military-welfare bodies.6, 17 No such donation is inferred from unrelated businesses, charities or media holdings.

Public Advocacy & Statements

The attributable executive Israel-specific statement located is Frangopoulos’s September 2025 statement welcoming GB News’s launch on Cellcom TV and framing it as international audience expansion.12 no public evidence identified of Frangopoulos, Schipper, Marshall, Chandler, Vassiliou or Douglas making a verified personal co-belligerency statement, settlement-endorsement statement or anti-BDS lobbying statement within the reliable sources located for this audit.6, 12, 17

Published statements by political presenters, contributors, interviewees or guests are not treated as principal acts unless the individual is independently within the controlling-principal scope and the statement is their own. The Tice and Burghart examples above are therefore speaker-level evidence only.13, 14

Board Memberships & Affiliations

No public evidence identified of the current controlling principals holding a verified board or leadership role in AIPAC, Conservative Friends of Israel, Friends of the IDF, JNF/KKL, Regavim, Im Tirtzu or an Israeli state-aligned lobbying body from the reliable sources located in this audit.6, 7, 17

Constructive-notice chronology

The ICJ delivered its advisory opinion concerning Israel’s policies and practices in the occupied Palestinian territory on 19 July 2024.26 The ICC issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant on 21 November 2024.27 GB News’s documented launch on Cellcom TV occurred on 26 September 2025, after both dates.12 This is a chronology only; the sources located do not establish that GB News discussed either legal development when selecting Cellcom.12, 26, 27

Settlement Nexus

The identified settlement nexus is indirect and commercial: GB News chose Cellcom TV as its Israeli distribution platform in 2025,12 while Cellcom is independently identified in settlement-business reporting and specialist databases.16, 18, 19, 20 no public evidence identified of GB News itself sponsoring a settlement event, donating to a settlement entity, publicly endorsing settlement expansion, or entering a settlement-authority contract.12, 19, 20

Cellcom’s current channels page retrieved during this audit contains an entry labelled “BGNEWS” at channel 102.28 Because that label is not an exact match for “GB News,” this audit does not treat it as unambiguous independent confirmation that the September 2025 carriage remains active on 8 October 2026.28

Footnotes

  1. Companies House, “GB NEWS LIMITED - overview” (current record). https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12859339 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  2. Companies House, “GB NEWS LIMITED - persons with significant control” (current record). https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12859339/persons-with-significant-control ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  3. Companies House, “GB NEWS LIMITED - officers” (current record). https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12859339/officers ↩ ↩2

  4. Companies House, “GB NEWS LIMITED - filing history” (current record). https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12859339/filing-history ↩ ↩2

  5. Companies House, “ALL PERSPECTIVES LTD - overview” (current record). https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12227760 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  6. Companies House, “ALL PERSPECTIVES LTD - persons with significant control” (current record). https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12227760/persons-with-significant-control ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11

  7. Companies House, “ALL PERSPECTIVES LTD - officers” (current record). https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12227760/officers ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  8. Companies House, “ALL PERSPECTIVES LTD - filing history” (current record). https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12227760/filing-history ↩ ↩2

  9. Press Gazette, “GB News losses to date grow to £131m as revenue grows,” 2026. https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business/gb-news-losses-2025/ ↩

  10. UK Parliament, Communications and Digital Committee, corrected oral evidence, “The future of news: impartiality, trust and technology,” 26 March 2024. https://committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/14607/html/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  11. Ofcom, “Update on Ofcom investigations into broadcaster campaigns,” 25 September 2023. https://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand/broadcast-standards/update-on-Ofcom-investigations-into-broadcaster-campaigns ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  12. The Jerusalem Post, “GB News expands international reach with launch in Israel,” 26 September 2025, updated 27 September 2025. https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/article-868699 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15 ↩16 ↩17 ↩18 ↩19

  13. GB News, “Richard Tice says Labour has ‘damaged’ Britain by ‘abandoning Israel’,” 13 October 2025. https://www.gbnews.com/politics/richard-tice-labour-damaged-britain-abandoning-israel ↩ ↩2

  14. GB News, “Leading Tory tells GB News Gaza peace plan is ‘how good things start’,” 14 October 2025. https://www.gbnews.com/news/video-gaza-peace-deal-conservative-party-reaction-alex-burghart ↩ ↩2

  15. GB News, “Palestine activists left raging at Keir Starmer’s ceasefire statement …,” 16 January 2025. https://www.gbnews.com/news/palestine-activists-keir-starmer-ceasefire-london-marches ↩

  16. United Nations / UNISPAL, “UN Human Rights Office updates database of business enterprises involved in certain activities relating to settlements,” 26 September 2025. https://www.un.org/unispal/document/business-database-26sep25/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  17. United Nations / UNISPAL, Francesca Albanese, A/HRC/59/23, “From economy of occupation to economy of genocide,” 2025. https://www.un.org/unispal/document/a-hrc-59-23-from-economy-of-occupation-to-economy-of-genocide-report-special-rapporteur-francesca-albanese-palestine-2025/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10

  18. Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, “Israel/OPT: UN updates database of businesses involved in illegal Israeli settlements, listing 158 enterprises from 11 countries,” 2025. https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/israelopt-un-updates-database-of-businesses-involved-in-illegal-israeli-settlements-listing-158-enterprises-from-11-countries/ ↩ ↩2

  19. Who Profits Research Center, “Cellcom Israel Ltd.” (company profile, accessed 8 October 2026). https://www.whoprofits.org/companies/company/3752 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  20. AFSC Investigate, “Cellcom Israel” (company profile, accessed 8 October 2026). https://investigate.afsc.org/company/cellcom-israel ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  21. Evening Standard, “Gaza: Ofcom receives 373 complaints over GB News show,” 8 November 2023. https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/gaza-ofcom-gb-news-israel-keir-starmer-b1119106.html ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  22. Ofcom, “Decision - GB News Limited,” 31 October 2024. https://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand/broadcast-standards/decision-gb-news-limited ↩

  23. Ofcom, “Ofcom statement in response to High Court Judgment: GB News v Ofcom,” 28 February 2025; updated 13 March 2025. https://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand/broadcast-standards/ofcom-statement-in-response-to-high-court-judgment-gb-news-v-ofcom?language=en ↩

  24. Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, “GB News -v- Ofcom,” [2025] EWHC 460 (Admin), 28 February 2025. https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/gb-news-v-ofcom/ ↩

  25. The Guardian, “Paul Marshall expected to bid for Telegraph after quitting GB News board,” 26 April 2024. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/apr/26/paul-marshall-telegraph-gb-news-board ↩

  26. International Court of Justice, “Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem,” advisory opinion materials, 19 July 2024. https://www.un.org/unispal/document/advisory-opinion-icj-19jul24/ ↩ ↩2

  27. International Criminal Court, “Situation in the State of Palestine: ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I … issues warrants of arrest for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant,” 21 November 2024. https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-state-palestine-icc-pre-trial-chamber-i-rejects-state-israels-challenges?ftag=YHF4eb9d17 ↩ ↩2

  28. Cellcom, “Cellcom TV - channels” (current channel-list page, accessed 8 October 2026). https://cellcom.co.il/production/Private/cellcomtv/channels/ ↩ ↩2