Overview

• The Good Law Project plans to publish a report alleging GB News disproportionately labeled migrants as “illegal” and overstated the ethnic makeup of grooming gang suspects.
• GB News has rejected the GLP’s analysis as methodologically flawed and accused the group of pursuing a politically driven campaign to curb its coverage.
• GLP analysis claims the term “illegal” precedes “migrant” or “immigrant” in 53% of GB News mentions and cites government data showing only 7% of group-based child sexual exploitation suspects were recorded as Asian.
• Baroness Casey’s June review of the grooming gangs data described the underlying dataset as “incomplete,” “unreliable,” and a “bloody disaster.”
• A government inquiry ordered in June has intensified the dispute by placing official weight on contested data interpretations and media accountability.