Susanna Siddell
Susanna Siddell covers UK party politics for GB News, with a particular focus on Labour’s policy battles and their clashes with critics over tax, spending, migration, digital identity and free speech. Her reporting leans on detailed accounts of specific rows rather than broad process pieces, often built around interviews and confrontations on the channel’s own programmes. She also turns to data-driven stories when they cut through to public debate, such as extreme temperature records and their wider context.
Labour spending, tax and education rows
A recurring strand in Siddell’s work is the scrutiny of Labour’s plans for public spending and taxation, especially where they touch education.
She has reported on warnings that a misjudged approach to special educational needs could cost taxpayers billions, framing the issue around backbench unease and the risk of expensive policy mistakes. In coverage of proposals to extend VAT to private school fees, she follows the clash between senior Labour figures and GB News hosts, highlighting how tax policy is contested in live broadcast exchanges as well as in Parliament.
These pieces combine headline fiscal figures with the voices of MPs and commentators, keeping the focus on the political stakes for Labour’s front bench.
Digital ID, free speech and gender politics
Siddell frequently reports on the intersection of Labour policy with civil liberties, identity and gender.
Her coverage of Labour’s proposed digital ID scheme centres on fears that the plans could blur safeguards around sex and gender, amplifying concerns from campaigners who argue that bureaucratic changes carry real-world consequences. In her free speech reporting, she gives space to authors and journalists who accuse Keir Starmer of presiding over a “death” of Britain’s free speech, using their words to frame a broader argument about the cultural direction of the party.
Across these stories she treats digital regulation and speech rights as political questions rather than purely technical ones, showing how they become fault lines between Labour and its critics.
Immigration, migrant crisis and women’s safety
Immigration and the migrant crisis are another core theme, often approached through the lens of public safety and trust in government. Siddell has covered women’s activists accusing Labour of “lies” and demanding changes to accommodation policies, tying individual experiences to wider concerns about how migration is managed. She also reports on GB News figures challenging Labour over new immigration statistics, presenting their critiques alongside official numbers to underline the scale of recent arrivals and the party’s response. In coverage of the Chagos Islands dispute involving Priti Patel, Nigel Farage and Donald Trump, she connects foreign policy and historical grievances with contemporary political positioning, showing how migration-related issues extend beyond domestic borders. These pieces consistently frame immigration as a live political battleground rather than a settled policy area.
Broadcast clashes and party strategy
Much of Siddell’s output is built around moments from GB News broadcasts, where ministers and MPs are pressed on strategy and policy.
She has written detailed accounts of Labour ministers being interrupted or corrected on air by host Camilla Tominey, using these exchanges to illustrate gaps between party messaging and the questions voters are asking. In another piece, she focuses on a Labour MP left in awkward silence while Tominey lays out a sequence of apparent U-turns, turning a studio encounter into a concise narrative about the party’s shifting positions. Siddell also covers claims from Conservative figures that their party will win the next General Election, setting those predictions against current polling trends and internal confidence.
Her reporting on Reform UK and its leader Richard Tice similarly highlights attacks on Labour over the economy and net zero, positioning smaller parties as part of the competitive field Labour must face. This strand of her work tracks how televised clashes feed into longer-term party strategy and public perception.
Data-led and science stories when they cut through
Alongside politics, Siddell has reported on global temperature records when they capture public attention, such as Earth’s lowest temperature in fourteen years at Antarctica’s Concordia research station. In that piece she sets out the precise readings, the timing of the cold snap and how it compares with past records, grounding the story in data rather than commentary.
She links the event to wider patterns of extreme weather, showing how scientific measurements can quickly become part of everyday discussion when they are clearly explained.
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