GB News presenter Stephen Dixon hit out at anti-Brexit protesters who interrupted a GB News interview with Robert Jenrick by waving Sooty, Sweep and a stuffed elephant behind him.

The bizarre interruption came after the Shadow Justice Secretary joked at the start of the interview: “You will have to excuse the clowns I have behind me. It’s not David Lammy, this time it’s even worse.”

At the end of the conversation, Stephen said: “BBC cancelled Sooty and Sweep back in the day. Unfortunately, they’ve revived themselves behind you.

“But we’ve tried to ignore them all morning. You’ve done very well ignoring that behind you, thank you, Mr Jenrick.

“Has anyone ever thought that waving puppets is how you make a serious point? They want to complain about Brexit they’re entitled to.

“But how do you make a serious point? By waving Sooty and Sweep and a stuffed elephant? I don’t know.”

Sooty and Sweep are famous British children’s television characters, and the protester was likely holding them up behind Mr Jenrick to draw focus from his interview message.

Steve Bray is a well known for being an anti-Brexit protester. Going by the name of Mr Stop Brexit and often causing havoc for MPs.

The interruption came as Mr Jenrick told the People’s Channel that the country is “going to pot” under Sir Keir Starmer.

He said: “Well, it’s end of day stuff, isn’t it? You’ve got the most unpopular Prime Minister ever.

“You’ve got the most unpopular Chancellor since records began, who’s about to break the manifesto commitment and increase income tax in her budget in a couple of weeks time.

“The country is basically going to pot at the moment, with the NHS on strike, open borders, prisoners being released, and yet this weak and paranoid Prime Minister is now turning on his own cabinet and machine gunning his own ministers.

“It’s a total mess. He just needs to get back to his day job and actually try and fix this country.

“It’s not up to me to decide who the Labour Party have as their leader, but I will say that Keir Starmer is one, if not the worst Prime Minister I’ve ever known. He’s got no plan. He can’t command authority in Parliament.

“The public are sick of him, and everything feels like it’s a mess at the moment. Out there in the country, the public, they’re looking on this absolutely aghast. They just want the government to get a grip of the challenges that the country is facing at the moment.

“Instead, it’s like a circular firing squad, rats in a sack. Fighting, fighting, fighting – get back to the day job and run this country properly.”

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On Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ forthcoming Budget, Mr Jenrick said: “The high street is in a real mess at the moment. What we’ve said as Conservatives is that we want to get rid of business rates for businesses with rateable values of £100,000 or less. And that means almost all of the cafes, the restaurants, the independent shops on our high streets, wouldn’t have to pay those.

“That would make a massive difference right now, because, as you see, high street shops and pubs are closing, left, right and centre, that I think is the best thing that we could do to give them a shot in the arm, really help them to get through the difficult months ahead.

“But what’s Rachel Reeves talking about? Tax rises, left, right and centre, and that’s going to make life even more difficult, and you’re seeing the real world consequences for that, not just shops closing, but people laying off staff.

“At the moment, unemployment is the highest it’s been for five years, since those very challenging days of the pandemic, and it’s only going to get worse, as there’s no strategy right now to grow the economy, and Rachel Reeves looks like she’s going to make it worse in the Budget at the end of the month.”

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