Expert calls out Lawrence Fox for ‘ambush’ on GB News

Laurence Fox was roasted during his own show as he was accused of “biased views”. Fox sat down with Dr Bharat Pankhania, a senior clinical lecturer at the University of Exeter’s medical school, to discuss the roll out of Covid 19 vaccines on Thursday, April 27. When asked his thoughts on a new report allegedly seen by GB News that criticised the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency’s (MHRA) roll out of the vaccines, Pankhania said: “I sometimes wonder why you exist, to be honest with you.”

With Fox looking shocked, the doctor continued: “A lot of these things that you spew out, just send things that are worrisome to people, are not verified, not factual.

“You just have your own agenda, that’s what I think. You are just spewing out your biased views. That’s how I feel about you.”

Fox responded with: “I wasn’t asking what you felt about me, I was asking you what you felt about the discussion”.

Pankhania replied: “I feel [that] about you, your statements and the panellists that you brought together.

“I was brought up on this programme right now, told I’m going to have a one-to-one conversation with you, and suddenly I find myself in a panel discussion.”

The doctor said he hadn’t read the report and had not been told he would be discussing it on air.

He then accused Fox, an actor in the drama series Lewis, and GB News of an “ambush”.

Defending the MHRA, he added that the organisation was in a harder position post-Brexit, but concluded: “Having said all that, it is absolutely fit for purpose” and said that, when it comes to Covid-19 vaccines, “the good outweighs the harm by a large, large margin”.

The clip was widely shared, with Fox’s name trending on Twitter on Friday afternoon as people mocked the interview.

“Expert slapping the wet fish of reality around the smug, entitled chops of Laurence Fox. There’s another expert they won’t be inviting back…” one tweet read.

“Always nice to see Laurence Fox getting his arse handed to him. But also, it sounds like GB News producers weren’t exactly straight with Dr. Pankhania when they were booking him. He obviously felt ambushed,” another wrote.

Another tweet read: “Stop what you are doing and watch this 30 second video of an academic confronting the risible @lozzafox with a dose of truth. Trust me.”

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