GB News aired a huge blow to Labour MP Jess Phillips as the programme paused for a breaking news alert – with viewers predicting it could be “over” for her political career. Phillips was responding to questions over the Oldham grooming gang inquiry in the House of Commons, and was accused of “letting Oldham council tell her what to do”.

She fumed: “Can I just be completely clear? I am suggesting that I will listen completely and utterly to the feedback from the victims that were and still are [giving]. They are not spreading misinformation at all, but his interpretation is a brilliant case in point, because I will be completely honest, the conversation with Oldham is ‘Do we not think it might be better for them just to take part in a statutory inquiry?’ It is absolutely nothing to do with the idea that Oldham is telling me what to do.”

She went on, referencing a member of the opposition “He can hold up his paper and have a smug face all he likes, but the fact of the matter is there is absolutely no council in this country who will tell this enquiry where it can and cannot go. I have said that one million times from this dispatch box, and yet the same thing gets hackled again and again.”

Phillips was accused of taking an “aggressive and defensive tone” by another MP – and left viewers of the on-screen moment fuming.