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Earlier today GB News announced it will launch at 8pm on Sunday June 13. Mr Brazier, who spent 24 years working for Sky News, will be one of its star presenters.
Speaking to the Yorkshire Post, where he began his career, the journalist warned against the rise of “cancel culture”.
He said: “If you use the word ‘woke’ it essentially hinders a broader conversation.
“But are we worried about cancel culture? Yes.
“Are we worried about free speech? Yes.”
Mr Brazier will co-host a daytime show along with Mercy Muroki, who has previously written for The Sun and The Times.
Earlier this month Ms Muroki tweeted: “Having been at Oxford since 2019, I have concluded it isn’t for ‘people like me’.
“Not because I’m black or from a working class background.
“But because I dare to challenge its increasingly woke orthodoxies and think ‘decolonising’ everything but the kitchen sink is nonsensical.”
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“A lot of people have taken a risk coming to what is a start-up.
“I’m a widowed father with six kids and I could have quite happily seen out the remainder of my career at Sky. But this was a siren call that had to be answered.
“I just felt, in common with a lot of people, that existing media outlets are just paying lip-service to wide parts of the country.”
GB News will be the first major UK news network launched since Sky News in 1989.
Explaining the justification for a new channel Mr Neil wrote the British media has become “too metropolitan, too southern and too middle-class”.
He added: “There’s a restlessness, a sense that they’re being talked down to; that much of the media no longer reflects their values or shares their concerns. GB News is aimed squarely at those people.”
The new channel plans to broadcast 6,500 hours of “original news, opinion and debate” per year.
Segments on Mr Neil’s nightly programme will reportedly include “Wokewatch” and “Mediawatch”.
GB News insists it will adhere to Ofcom guidelines on political impartiality.
These state: “Due impartiality on matters of political or industrial controversy and matters relating to current public policy must be preserved.”
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