Scottish journalist and broadcaster
Andrew Neil (born 21 May 1949) is a Scottish journalist and broadcaster. Neil was appointed editor of The Sunday Times by Rupert Murdoch in 1983, and held this position until 1994. He was formerly editor-in-chief of Press Holdings Media Group (from 1996, later chief executive, chairman from 2008) of which The Spectator was formerly a part. Briefly chairman of GB News in 2021, Neil had a difficult relationship with Paul Marshall, an investor in the the television station, and resigned as Spectator chairman in September 2024 when Marshall acquired the magazine.
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In the run-up to the launch, through the launch, and in the aftermath of the launch – and I think most of you who know anything about it will know you couldn't file the launch under startling success – more and more differences emerged between myself and the other senior managers and the board of GB News. And, rather than these differences narrowing, they got wider and wider and I felt it was best that, if that's the route they wanted to take, then that's up to them, it's their money.