GB News halts for breaking news update in brutal blow to Rachel Reeves

It’s more disappointing news for Reeves.

GB News halted for a breaking news announcement (Image: GB News)

Mark White and Anne Diamond halted their GB News interview with former political advisor Charlie Rowley for a breaking news update. They explained that the UK economy’s gross domestic product (GDP) rate grew by 0.1% between October and December 2025, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). As the news emerged, the two hosts asked Charlie if he was willing to talk on the update.

In a brutal blow to Rachel Reeves, he told the hosts that the growth was nothing to “get the bunting out for”, adding that it’s “not great news at all”. Charlie questioned how anyone was supposed to “have confidence in Reeves” and fumed that we are a “services based economy” and said again that the “idea that it has not grown is not good at all”. They discussed that construction, given the government contract, was the “shocker”, as Mark fumed: “That’s the shocker isn’t it. Massive housebuilding programme we’re told, all of the above.”

Rachel Reeves faced another blow (Image: Getty)

Mark raged once more that they’re being told that Royal Navy ships are being built, but stated they’re “not”, prompting Charlie to agree and continue: “Absolutely, that’s where the trickle down economy comes,” adding that it shows we are “going backwards”.

Anne then fumed directly at Rachel Reeves and said: “The very thing she stressed all the way through, during the election and since, is that this is a government for growth, and yet so far…”

Charlie then guessed it would be an “absolute headache” for the Chancellor when they hear the news and said Reeves will need to attempt to defend it and tell the public what is going to be done to correct it, adding: “I imagine it’s only going to be all of the tax rises that she’s already announced to pump into infrastructure to get that growth in the long-term.”

However, in a final blow to Reeves, he added: “But we’ve gone backwards in the space of 18 months under this Chancellor that’s raised taxes twice in two successive budgets. How on earth will the public have confidence? How on earth will the banks, the construction industry, have confidence in the Chancellor going forward?”

He added: “This is just going to be another bad headache for the government.”

It’s another blow in a long line of headaches for the government with members of the public and MPs calling for the resignation of both Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves ever since the November budget was announced, which was soon followed by a poll that stated Starmer was the least popular Prime Minister ever.