GB News was interrupted with a major breaking news update from Downing Street (Image: Getty)
GB News ground to a halt minutes into their afternoon show as they issued another major breaking news update from No. 10 following Henry Nowak’s death. On Thursday afternoon (June 4), Emily Carver and Mark Wright returned to the airwaves to discuss the biggest stories hitting the headlines. It didn’t take long for things to turn political as they welcomed their chief political correspondent, Katherine Forster, onto the show, who reported live from Downing Street.
Before they threw the show over to their colleague, they announced that Sir Keir Starmer will meet the family of the murdered student, whose treatment by police has now triggered a political row. Officials from No. 10 revealed that a private meeting is scheduled for later this afternoon.
Ms Forster began: “The Prime Minister will meet Henry Nowak’s family here in Downing Street later on this afternoon. We know that they met with the leader of the opposition, Kemi Badenoch, a little bit earlier.” The TV presenter gave viewers an insight into what the Tory leader reportedly discussed with the grieving family on the show.
She went on: “[Badenoch] has said that they talked about their decision to share that incredibly harrowing bodycam footage that showed the last moments of Henry’s life, and specifically the way in which he was not believed by the police when he said that he couldn’t breathe and that he had been stabbed. They talked, she said, about the need to rebuild trust in the police, which they agreed is broken as a result of that and about working across the party.
“They stressed apparently that they’d want to bring communities together, that Henry and they have got friends of all races and religions, and they do not want to see further trouble or division. So you can imagine that it will be a similar conversation with the Prime Minister.”
It comes after the Labour leader accused the tech billionaire of “trying to whip up division” over the murder of Henry Nowak. There were violent protests in Southampton following the release of the police footage of the 18-year-old’s final moments, as killer Vickrum Digwa claimed he had been the victim of a racist attack.
Henry Nowak died aged 18 back in December 2025 (Image: Hampshire Police/PA Wire)
The distressing footage has prompted a wave of political reaction in the UK, as well as X owner Musk, who criticised the police treatment of the late teenager. Posting on X on Tuesday (June 2), Musk posted: “Send the video to everyone you know showing how heinously Nowak was treated by the police in his dying moments and how the police cravenly kowtowed to his murderer.
“Legacy mainstream media, the same ones who wrote about George Floyd millions of times, are dead silent about Nowak.” Floyd died from a heart attack caused by neck compression from a police officer handcuffing him before kneeling on his neck. His death sparked global protests against racism and police brutality across the UK.
In a visit to York on Thursday, Starmer accused Musk of interfering in British politics and stressed the grieving family had appealed for calm. He said: “We need to also assert who we are as a country, because Musk, again, has been interfering in our politics in the last few days, trying to whip up division – that is not who we are in Britain.
“In Britain, we are reasonable, tolerant people. When we have a terrible case like Henry’s case, Henry Nowak, we react calmly as his family have done.”
