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Andrew Neil is expected to quit GB News amid a bitter rift with its senior management and board, dealing a blow to the channel as bosses battle to build an audience.

Plans for the chairman and flagship presenter of the fledgling news network to make a comeback on Monday have been cancelled, and insiders now expect him to resign without returning to its airwaves.

The veteran broadcaster and GB News bosses have failed to set aside their differences, sources said, after relations between Mr Neil and chief executive Angelos Frangopoulos suffered a total breakdown over the direction of the company.

Viewing numbers were initially comparable with those of rivals as the channel sought to present itself as a centre-right alternative to the BBC, but audience levels have since dropped.

Mr Frangopoulos is understood to be mulling a plan to remodel GB News along the lines of opinionated American television channels such as Fox - a proposal thought to have been strongly resisted by Mr Neil.

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