GB News airs furious clash in major blow to Keir Starmer as guest rages 'let's have facts'

aired a furious row after presenters Stephen Dixon and Ellie Costello welcomed guests Scarlett McGuire and Charlie Rowley for the show's newspaper segment. Stephen prompted: "Can we have a look at what the Prime Minister's going to be saying today because he's going to be launching an all-out attack on ?"

This comes after Reform UK leader pledged more generous tax breaks for married couples, to scrap the two-child benefit cap and restore winter fuel payments for all pensioners. Charlie responded: "He is accusing the Reform leader of articulating fantasy economics... I think it's a bit rich coming from the Prime Minister. Accusing people of fantasy economics, when this is a guy who spent a whole general election campaign saying they weren't going to raise national insurance contribution on businesses, take away the winter fuel payments from pensioners, that has choked off growth, choked off the economy with over inflation and bustign pay rises for the union. However, as the commentator continued his list, Scarlett wasn't having it as she interrupted: "Okay, now let's have some facts."

Among his list, Charlie fumed: "There's no strategy, there's no course of direction for the government. Everybody's up in arms. No wonder they're going for Reform, and it is just a Prime Minister who is treading water."

After Scarlett interjected, the commentator hit back: "I've given all the facts," To which he responded: "Hold on, let's have some facts.

"They were very careful during the general election, they said they wouldn't increase national insurance on employees and never said it employers."

After more back and forth with Charlie, she continued: "Look, we were left with a disaster to inherit and we have to find the money, we have to find to both keep Britain going and improve our public services."

After Stephen argued for the "farmers and pensioners," Scarlett fired back: "No, the thing about the pensioners is I don't think it was done well, but I certainly think there are an awful lot of pensioners ... what are we doing giving rich people money. Of course, it should have been means-tested; they just got the means test wrong."

Reform stated that its pledged policies would be funded by scrapping net-zero climate measures, stopping hotel accommodation for asylum seekers, ending diversity and equality initiatives in the public sector, and cutting the number of quangos.

Ahead of his visit to manufacturing workers, Starmer will accuse the Reform leader of pledging unfunded tax cuts which, he will warn, could spark an economic meltdown and blast their economic agenda as a "mad experiment."

He is expected to say: "In opposition we said Liz Truss would crash the economy and leave you to pick up the bill, we were right and we were elected to fix that mess. Now in government, we are once again fighting the same fantasy, this time from Nigel Farage.

"Farage is making the exact same bet Liz Truss did. That you can spend tens of billions on tax cuts without a proper way of paying for it. And just like Truss, he is using your family finances, your mortgage, your bills as a gambling chip on his mad experiment. The result will be the same."