...it has emerged this weekend that George Farmer, 34, a British banker and husband of the outspoken American pro-Trump influencer Candace Owens, also 34, has joined the board of GB News. His appointment, following a period running Parler, the dormant American right-wing social media platform, does not signal new distance from its known ideological territory.
Farmer, the new board member, is son of the multi-millionaire British life peer Michael Farmer, a former Tory treasurer, hedge fund founder and also an investor in GB News. His son, an Oxford theology graduate, lives in America with Owens and their two children. The couple, who married at the Trump Winery in Virginia, first met at a 2018 inaugural meeting of Turning Point UK, a Conservative student organisation he chaired. In America the original student organisation had already earned a reputation for its enthusiastic support for Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again movement. After the British launch meeting Farmer tweeted: “Plenty of snowflakes melting in London tonight.”
The plan to refresh the channel is thought to be fuelled in part by concern that an upcoming bid for ownership of the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph could be tainted by association. A consortium preparing an offer for the historic British newspaper titles is led by Sir Paul Marshall, co-founder of the hedge fund Marshall Wace, who invested £10m in GB News and who also funds the political site UnHerd.
Tim Montgomerie, a former editor of UnHerd, said he expected GB News to undergo “a major course correction” in the next few days. He believes, he said, that Marshall, a committed Christian, will have been unhappy about the Fox and Wootton broadcast, particularly in the run-up to the launch of a potential Telegraph bid.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/ ... -inquiriesBoiler manufacturer Boxt have terminated their advertising with GB News, one of the last few big-
ish remaining advertisers on the station.