GB News humiliates itself again with shambolic invasion of Greenpeace office

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GB News has been branded a ‘national embarrassment’ by viewers after astunt at Greenpeace’s HQ in London.

The channel’s editor Ben Leo and camera crews invaded the environmental activist group’s main office earlier this week after they protested at Rishi Sunak’s home while he holidayed in Disneyland.

Campaigners had covered the prime minister’s Yorkshire mansion with hundreds of metres of ‘oily-black fabric’ after he backed a major expansion of North Sea oil and gas drilling.

After bursting into Greenpeace’s HQ, Ben approached a member of the group, who greeted him with decorum and respect, offering him a seat and the opportunity to start a conversation.

Instead, though, Ben walked off until he encountered the protestor behind the act, designed to raise awareness of disastrous climate consequences predicted by experts by the PM pledging to ‘max out’ the North Sea.

She gamely stopped on the stairs and politely began answering his questions, although Ben interrupted and seemed more interested in heading to the kitchen to ‘make himself a cup of tea.’

A Greenpeace worker after if Ben Leo wanted to take a seat (Picture: GB News) Workers carried on about their day as Ben carried out his ‘stunt’ (Picture: GB News) Ben made himself a cup of tea in the Greenpeace HQ (Picture: GB News)

Ben later barged into the office area, with the workers calmly ignoring him and carrying on with their tasks.

Later interviewing two Greenpeace execs and chastising them for invading a ‘private man’s’ home, one responded that he was, in fact, the prime minister, it was a ‘matter of national news’ he was away, they ‘knocked on the door first’ and it was a ‘peaceful’ protest.

On X, formerly known as Twitter, one social media user wrote: ‘Great work showcasing how diligent and respectful Greenpeace are. You’ve done a great job in giving them some good PR after a lot of bad press yesterday. Good on you guys.’

Protestors had covered his home with ‘oily black’ material (Credits: PA) Rishi was on his first ‘proper’ holiday to Disneyland with his family (Picture: Getty)

A viewer penned: ‘Full marks to Greenpeace who dealt with this with dignity and clarity,’ while another added: ‘Hi GB News: The function of journalism is to hold power to account – not to run around getting performatively offended on power’s behalf.

A fourth said: ‘This isn’t journalism. GB news is a national embarrassment.’

GB News is currently at the centre of several Ofcom investigations, which most recently announced it would be looking into its anti-cashless society campaign.

The media watchdog had previously launched another probe into the fledgling new channel concerning a State Of The Nation episode on May 9.

Some 40 viewers complained after Jacob Rees-Mogg covered a breaking news story about a civil trial verdict involving Donald Trump.

An Ofcom spokesperson said: ‘We are investigating whether this programme broke our rules, which prevent politicians from acting as newsreaders, unless exceptionally, it is editorially justified.’

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Earlier this year, Ofcom ruled that GB News broke its broadcasting rules twice over comments made about the Covid-19 vaccine on the Mark Steyn Show.

The host resigned from GB News in February after the watchdog’s measures.

Metro.co.uk has previously contacted GB News for comment.

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