Laurence Fox issues statement as GB News suspend him for 'unacceptable' comments about female journalist

Laurence Fox has issued a statement after he made a series of 'unacceptable' remarks about a female journalist on GB News.

A clip of the comments, which have prompted a number of complaints to the media regulator Ofcom , have been viewed more than 2.1 million times, prompting a backlash including from MPs.

Fox made a series of remarks about Ava Evans, the political correspondent for online news site Joe, including describing her as a 'little woman' during an episode of Dan Wootton Tonight on Tuesday.

Ms Evans shared a clip on social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, with the caption 'Laurence Fox just did a whole speech on GB News on why men apparently won't shag me?'

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GB News have since announced they have suspended Fox while they 'continue our investigation into comments made on the channel last night.' They added that he had been taken off air, and that the channel will be issuing an apology to Ms Evans today.

In a statement issued this morning (September 27), Fox said he stands "by every word of what I said." The GB News commentator refused to apologise for comments made on Wootton's show.

“First of all, don’t take a pop at @danwootton for something I said. That’s not fair," he wrote in a lengthy post on social media.

“Secondly. I stand by every word of what I said. If a woman wants to go on television and belittle male suicide, she is totally within her rights to do so and not apologise, just as I am totally within my rights to say that I wouldn’t want to shag a hyper offended 4th wave feminist and not apologise, just as