"How did these two get this gig?"
Good Morning Britain faced backlash after Adil Ray and Ranvir Singh hosted the show, with viewers accusing them of being biased.
The controversy followed their interview with Chancellor Mel Stride, who attacked Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s response to a new 10% US trade tariff.
Stride said: “Nobody wants the high tariffs that the United States have brought in, that’s going to have huge consequences.”
He claimed the previous government came “very close to concluding” a trade deal and accused the current administration of taking “four months” to finalise it.
Stride added: “We need them to speed up.”
Ranvir Singh highlighted the Conservative Party’s handling of trade deals since Boris Johnson’s 2017 announcement.
However, viewers criticised the interview.
On social media, one wrote: “The contempt shown by Adil and Ranvir to this MP is unbelievable, not a balanced interview at all.”
Claiming Adil Ray is out of his depth, another said:
“Adil Ray should be wearing armbands. He is so far out of his depth. He makes the programme unwatchable.”
A critic questioned: “How did these two get this gig?”
Another viewer accused ITV of bias: “Ranvir cuts Mel Stride short because he didn’t suit ITV’s mandated narrative, and then goes on to state he is wrong, and his points were insignificant!!
“FFS, this is blatant narrative bias.”
Ranvir Singh challenged Stride on the Conservative Party’s past actions:
“You’re saying that this government’s being flat-footed, that may well be true, but you had 14 years.
“You had many, many years after we left the EU to sort this out. Isn’t that part of the problem that you failed us?”
Defending the Conservative Party’s record, Stride said:
“There was a lot that we did achieve, we got members of understanding a trade arrangement with eight US states in that time.”
“To your point, bear in mind that the Biden administration when they came in, we had Covid going on at the same time, took a really strong conscious decision that they were not going to pursue a trade agreement.”
This comes as the UK government considers retaliatory tariffs on US goods after President Donald Trump announced new import taxes.
Trump said he believed Prime Minister Keir Starmer “was very happy on how we treated” the UK regarding tariffs.
He added that he was open to negotiations if countries offered “something that is so phenomenal”.
Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds said he is consulting UK firms on the impact of the 10% tariffs and which US products could face retaliatory measures.
If negotiators fail to reduce the tariffs by May 1, he warned MPs that the UK may impose new duties on US imports.
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