Rishi Sunak has been urged to intervene after the culture department backed a campaign that has been linked to a boycott of right-wing media outlets.
A group of 46 Conservative MPs have written to the prime minister after the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport suggested that the Conscious Advertising Network helped to protect “brand safety”.
Britain’s five biggest advertising agencies are among the network’s members and together make up 60 per cent of UK advertising revenue.
In the letter the MPs, which include Liz Truss, the former prime minister, and Dame Priti Patel, the former home secretary, said that the five advertising agencies had boycotted GB News.
The network’s co-founders were members of Stop Funding Hate, a left-wing campaign group that encourages
