Labour humiliated on GB News in eight-word jab as host issues breaking news update

GB News presenter Ben Leo certainly didn't mince his words as he took a brutal swipe at Labour after issuing a breaking news update. On Thursday night (October 9), the 36-year-old presenter interrupted the scheduled programming to announce that Hamas has reportedly rejected plans for the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair to be involved in the running of Gaza after a ceasefire with Israel. A transitional 'Board of Peace' is set to be led by Donald Trump, with Blair overseeing an interim governing authority.

The broadcaster was quick to take aim at the former PM online as he revealed: "Even as the ink dries tonight, peace may be unravelling. A senior Hamas official has, within the past few moments, flat-out rejected Tony Blair's role in Donald Trump's so-called Board of Peace to oversee Gaza's post-war administration.

"So even the sick, death-cult, terrorist nutjobs at Hamas want nothing to do with Tony Blair!" To get a clearer view of the story, the broadcaster welcomed former Middle East correspondent Sara Firth onto the show.

When asked what she made of Hamas' comments, she admitted: "I was a Middle East correspondent for so many years. Every country, Ben, that you go to is despised by so many people. The legacy of the Iraq war runs so, so deep. That was based on faulty intelligence that he pushed, and there were so many dead as a result of that.

"So even to suggest that he could have a role, for all his diplomatic chops in coming in for a post-war Gaza peace deal, is pretty ludicrous." It didn't take long before viewers flooded to X - formerly known as Twitter - to share their thoughts on the update online.

One user quipped: "It's like inviting an arsonist to look after your house," as another chuckled: "When you're so universally disliked that even terrorists have standards for who they'll negotiate with". Another chimed in with: "Watching the downfall of these two politicians is going to be glorious" as a third echoed: "No one takes the UK seriously on the world stage anymore".

It comes after Osama Hamdan, a senior Hamas official, said no Palestinian group would accept the plan if the former Labour leader was at the helm. He told the AI Araby TV network yesterday: "All the factions, including the Palestinian Authority, reject this."

This morning, there have been fresh reports of Israeli air strikes in Gaza amid reported confusion as to when a ceasefire would start, following the pact's ratification by the government led by Benjamin Natanyahu.

However, Trump did not mention Hamas; concerns about the way Gaza would be governed during a live-streamed cabinet meeting on Thursday, the MailOnline reports.

The Chair of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, Dame Emily Thornberry, has said she "doesn't care" about the former Prime Minister Sir Tony Blair's involvement in a Board of Peace to oversee an interim governing authority for Gaza. She confessed: "I'm completely relaxed about whoever it is. I don't really care. What matters to me is what works."