Reform UK's police complaint against ITV leads TalkTV debate
Kevin O'Sullivan and Mark Littlewood question the undercover investigation, while ITV says its reporting complied with the law and broadcasting rules.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 271,536 views a day, 16 times a normal first day on this channel (16,673).
“Illegal ACTIVITY” | Reform UK Report ITV To Police For ‘Forging Passport And Election Interference’
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- 1:17Zia Yusuf outlines Reform UK's allegations against ITV journalists and says the party will take legal action.
- 4:19Littlewood questions the undercover investigation's methods and argues that its findings lack significance.
- 10:39Parliamentary footage shows Kemi Badenoch questioning the approval of Jackdaw gas drilling, followed by Ed Miliband's response.
- 12:00O'Sullivan and Littlewood argue that net-zero policy conflicts with their goal of abundant, cheap energy.
Where does undercover reporting end and improper interference begin? Kevin O'Sullivan puts that question at the center of a TalkTV discussion after Reform UK reported ITV and its undercover reporters to police.
The party accuses the reporters of forging a passport and interfering in elections. ITV says it stands by its journalism and that the investigation complied with broadcasting rules and the law. The accusations are not findings of wrongdoing.
O'Sullivan's guest is Mark Littlewood, director of Popular Conservatism. The segment plays a statement from Reform official Zia Yusuf outlining the party's allegations, before Littlewood questions the reporters' methods and dismisses the significance of what their investigation uncovered.
The investigation also recorded Reform councillors discussing executing grooming gang offenders, according to the video's description. That gives the debate two distinct subjects: what the reporting revealed, and how the journalists obtained it. Littlewood's criticism focuses heavily on the latter.
The upload reached about 166,000 views in ten hours, far beyond TalkTV's usual opening pace for regular videos. The discussion then moves beyond the police complaint: North Sea drilling and the approval of the Jackdaw gas field lead into O'Sullivan and Littlewood's arguments about energy prices and net-zero policy.
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- Channel
- TalkTV
- Subscribers
- 1,470,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 10,669,406
- Channel views, pace per day
- 3,713,572 (on a normal day: 1,173,683)
- Video published
- October 21, 2026
- Video views so far
- 166,195 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 271,536
The numbers
The Reform-ITV discussion drew an unusually fast start for TalkTV. Its comment section was also already several times busier than a typical full first day.
