Insiders from both camps described to BuzzFeed News how a string of incidents and differences in approach have stirred up "bad blood" between Sky News and the prime minister's communications team, headed up by Gibb — a well-connected former journalist with deep personal ties to the BBC.



"We know we're in the 'Robbie-era' now" said a Sky source. "They have a paranoid, BBC-first mindset and it's almost like a siege mentality of anything critical of Brexit."



From its marquee Sophy Ridge on Sunday show to its daily political programming, Sky's reporters and producers have noticed that senior politicians have been increasingly unwilling to come onto the channel.



Journalists at the channel also complain that they rarely get called on to ask a question at the PM's press conferences.

In July, Beth Rigby, now Sky's deputy political editor, tweeted that it had been five months since she was last called by May to ask a question.