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Mr Wootton left many viewers of GB News delighted with his current affairs show after hosting what many described as a “refreshing” lockdown debate. While presenting his 9pm show last week, Mr Wootton began by addressing the topic of the UK lockdown extension. This came as 49 backbench Conservative MPs rebelled and voted against an extension to the lockdown, and former Prime Minister Theresa May chose to abstain from the vote alongside 12 other Tories, after being highly critical of the ongoing regulations.<\/p>\n
As the Talk Radio star opened up the discussion to the rest of his panel, he introduced his four live guests – which included political correspondent Tom Harwood, Free Speech presenter Andrew Doyle, and comedian Konstantin Kisin.<\/p>\n
After the four went toe-to-toe on different aspects of the lockdown, many viewers of the evening show flocked to social media to share how pleased they were with the broadcast.<\/p>\n
One impressed user tweeted: “Watching Dan Wootton on GB News is so much more civilised and intelligent debate for a change.”<\/p>\n
A second one agreed, penning: “Fair point by Dan Wootton, unlike in the past, opposition to this extension to lifting COVID-19 restrictions can’t be dismissed as a bunch of cranks.<\/p>\n
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“A good range of Tory MPs voted against\/abstained from it last night because they had no legitimate excuse to tell their constituents.”<\/p>\n
The former The Sun and Talk Radio journalist is famous for his sharp opinions.<\/p>\n
It is no surprise he is now working for GB News – a new news channel and self-proclaimed antidote to the “metropolitan bias” of mainstream media, embodied by legacy broadcasters the BBC and Sky News.<\/p>\n
Mr Wootton has been particularly critical of the public broadcaster in recent years.<\/p>\n
In a column written last summer for The Sun, Mr Wootton accused the BBC of being a “blundering, woke mess of an organisation, no longer fit for purpose”.<\/p>\n
He argued the BBC no longer reports the real news of the UK, but instead, it tries to shape it.<\/p>\n
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