The chief executive of ITV said she does not anticipate a “Foxification” of news in the UK despite the upcoming launches of two new right-of-centre news channels because of the prominence of public service broadcasters.

Carolyn McCall said that Fox News and CNN in the US are “equally polarised and equally kind of shrill and sometimes so partisan that you just don’t know what to believe”.

But in an age of hyperpolarisation with people entrenched in their views on Brexit or Donald Trump, the UK’s PSB broadcast requirements for impartiality, accuracy and fairness make it disciplined and “easier” to run a regulated news organisation like ITV News, McCall told LBC’s podcast What Next? with Lionel Barber.