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GB News' new US-focused show is providing a regular platform for conspiracy theories - as well as the claim that the UK needs to be 'saved' by Donald Trump's America.

The Late Show Live launched on 22 September, broadcasting in the US, as well as on the UK channel and on YouTube.

Speaking at the American party to mark the launch of GB News in the US last month, its co-owner Sir Paul Marshall told the audience of 'Make America Great Again' allies and supporters: "We need you to come and save us. To rescue us… You are making America great again."

The right-wing millionaire added: "We need to make Britain great again… We need as many as possible of you… to appear on our channel, to tell the story of what you're doing to turn your country around." Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage, a GB News presenter, was the headline speaker at the party.

The new US show appears to be fulfilling Paul Marshall's wishes.

Content from the inaugural US show - which also aired in the UK - included frequent praise for Trump and his MAGA backers by the GB News hosts and guests - and vice versa, praise for GB News by MAGA figures.

The US launch raises questions about the media and political discourse GB News hopes to frame around the UK, from the perspective of American politics, and the extent to which such a project aims to help Farage's party, which is leading UK polls.

Both Turner and Leo have rejected man-made climate change, espoused anti-vaccine views, and appeared to cast doubt on the Coronavirus pandemic being real.

Turner's heavily pro-Trump commentary has previously included her saying "I think we've got such amazingly exciting times ahead" under the President, and on another occasion, "where Trump goes, hopefully the UK will follow".

Leo also has also praised Trump, called the climate crisis a "climate scam", and frequently uses far-right tropes about a so-called immigrant "invasion".

He has previously referred to pro-immigration politicians as "traitors" and said of the US President: "I think President Trump, in decades to come, will be remembered as one of the greatest US presidents in living history. He has shifted the Overton window on everything from mass deportations, from the trans debate, take your pick… I think his face should be carved into Mount Rushmore."

The first programme featured an exclusive interview with senior Trump advisor, former Fox News anchor and 2020 election result-denier Kari Lake, who - along with host Ben Leo - repeatedly castigated the UK on issues such as immigration, free speech, and the BBC licence fee, while calling for Reform UK's Leader Nigel Farage to become the next prime minister.

Subsequent shows cemented GB News' apparent Trumpian worldview.

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Night Two: Paracetamol Panic

On its second airing on 23 September, Turner backed Donald Trump's announcement urging pregnant women to stop taking Tylenol - the name for Paracetamol in the US - claiming, without firm evidence, that it caused autism.

She said: "I just find it astonishing when Wes Streeting comes out as our Health Secretary the morning after and just says this is wrong as though he has evidence… I imagine he hasn't even read their report by the time he went on breakfast telly this morning."

And she put forward claims that doctors would recommend Paracetamol on the basis that they do not like Donald Trump.

"The trouble is, if people go into the doctors and the doctors hate Donald Trump and they say 'I'm pregnant, should I take Paracetamol?' The doctors are going to say, yeah, take Paracetamol, don't listen to that Donald Trump", she claimed.

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"Social media is literally awash with people, pregnant women today on TikTok. I mean, it blows my mind, necking Tylenol just to say, you take this Donald Trump as they p...