Is LBC biased?
The rating organisations do not give LBC one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. We have seen it on 1 published story of ours.
The short answers
Is LBC biased?
The rating organisations do not give LBC one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is LBC left or right?
The rating organisations do not give LBC one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Right.
Is LBC reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for LBC are Media Bias/Fact Check: Mixed factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
Who says so
2 organisations have published a rating for this outlet, in their own words. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
Mixed factuality
- Media Bias/Fact CheckmixedCheck it
Who owns it
- Global Media & EntertainmentMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
- Ashley Tabor-KingBillionaireparent group
Where it publishes from
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 1
- Reports listed
- 1
- We could read
- 1
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
We have not seen LBC cover a story that outlets rated right were largely absent from.
On the one story of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of LBC: its report arrived a median of 18 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 7 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 6 August 2026. Ratings pulled 6 August 2026.
Stories we have seen it on
- LBCLeans rightMixed factualityReform pledges 'harshest penalties in the world' for businesses employing illegal workers including jailing bosses (opens LBC in a new tab)
London, Greater London, England, United KingdomOwner: Ashley Tabor-King
Our report: Reform UK proposes law to jail bosses for employing illegal migrants
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as LBC, also publishing from United Kingdom, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
Every rating on this page is a named third party’s published work, republished with its author and, where one exists, a link to it. Our own coverage record is the section we measure ourselves. Neither is a judgement of any individual report: those are scored story by story, and the reasoning is on our methodology page.