By Danni King,Gemma Jones

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Good Morning Britain has faced a barrage of over 300 Ofcom complaints within a single week, with 354 grievances submitted against the ITV breakfast programme that broadcast on September 11. Ofcom has revealed that viewers lodged complaints regarding comments made during a discussion about Charlie Kirk’s assassination, with audiences particularly incensed by statements from guest Nels Abbey. The programme ignited controversy after the contributor compared Charlie Kirk to a former Ku Klux Klan leader mere hours following Kirk’s death. Just one day after Kirk’s assassination, GMB hosts Kate Garraway and Ed Balls brought former Conservative MP Michael Gove and author Nels Abbey onto the programme. Gove described Kirk as “a sort of Cicero for the TikTok age”, whilst Abbey countered: “I believe he was a David Duke for the TikTok age,” making reference to the neo-Nazi and former grand wizard of the KKK, reports the Express . “This is by no means trying to justify his murder. Political violence is wrong at home; it’s wrong abroad. Political violence must be condemned, as must the propagandising for political violence and the dehumanisation of people,” he explained. He added: “Charlie Kirk was somebody who… I shiver, particularly for Conservatives when he’s described as Conservative, because he wasn’t. He was quite clearly and comfortably a supremacist. The very sort of people he helped dehumanise over the years… the exact same thing that he sort of helped to legitimise for them has happened to him.” Abbey added: “It’s sad, it’s wrong, but there’s a moral lesson in here too, which is to recognise your own vulnerability, be more empathetic, don’t propagandise for people’s murder. It could happen to you.” The comments sparked outrage among viewers at the time, leading to the show receiving 354 complaints. “Nels Abbey should be sacked immediately,” one viewer wrote at the time, while another stated: “GMB needs to seriously consider never showing Nels Abbey on their show ever again.” Another viewer was incensed, stating: “On ITV’s Good Morning Britain, Nels Abbey had the audacity to call Charlie Kirk a “white supremacist” and liken him to David Duke, former Grand Wizard of the KKK. Utterly sickening. He hasn’t even been dead a day, and this is what they say.” A third viewer echoed these sentiments, saying: “Disgusting. Shame on you Nels Abbey. Shame. shame. shame. How ill informed can a person be! ! ? @ITV APOLOGISE NOW! Sickening.” In other news, it has been revealed that the ITV daytime show received 95 complaints for their programme on September 15. Jeremy Vine also received 85 complaints for the broadcast on September 12. Good Morning Britain airs at 6am on weekdays on ITV1