The new editor of 5 News says the programme’s audience is “a lot of people who back Brexit” and that far from trying to compete with the BBC and ITV, it offers a different service.

Ask Cait Fitzsimons who her audience is and she’ll tell you it’s not the metropolitan elite, but rather working Britons whose jobs mean they are usually home for its 5pm and 6.30pm daily bulletins.

“They are the opposite of Channel 4’s audience,” she says.