A national TV channel has been criticised after it mistook someone else for the mayor of Brighton and Hove in a news report. The GB News show Patrick Christys Tonight showed a clip of a bearded man receiving garlands from some other men and said that he was the mayor, Mohammed Asaduzzaman. The clip was broadcast on Tuesday as Mr Christys discussed proposals announced by the Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner to devolve some government powers to the regions.
During the show, Mr Christys said: “More power would also end up in the hands of regional mayors, right, so like Brighton and Hove’s recently elected mayor, for example, Mohammed Asaduzzaman, who I think we have a clip of here. “Alright, ok, realistically, do we want more power in the hands necessarily of people like that?” A clip from the show was tweeted by Queen’s Park resident Adrian Hart who criticised the error. Mayor Mohammed Asaduzzaman The Labour leader of Brighton and Hove City Council, Bella Sankey, said: “This is more racist garbage from the GB Disinformation Service.
“Not only does this clip not feature our fantastic mayor, Councillor Mohammed Asaduzzaman, but it wrongly claims he is a regional mayor rather than our city’s ceremonial mayor. “We need an immediate apology from GB News and a retraction and will be referring this embarrassment to Ofcom.” The mayor of Brighton and Hove is expected to be politically neutral and the role is ceremonial with no direct power.
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