Don’t worry, a politician can’t present the Today programme. Michael Grade is wrong about that – and GB News | Stewart Purvis and Chris Banatvala (opens in new tab)

As the former Ofcom chair says extraordinary things about the rightwing channel and its critics, a factcheck would not go amiss• Stewart Purvis is a former editor in chief of ITN; Chris Banatvala is a former Ofcom director of standardsDuring , the outgoing chair, Michael Grade, surprised his BBC Radio 4 interviewer. He had been asked by Katie Razzall whether Ofcom rules would allow a politician to present the Today programme apart from the news bulletins. She clearly did not expect him to ans...