Nigel Farage Returning To GB News After Being Elected To Parliament

Nigel Farage is returning to the GB News presenting chair just a week after being elected to parliament for the first time, with Ofcom now likely to face scrutiny over how it regulates his show.

The Reform UK leader’s return was confirmed last night by a GB News video on X showing Farage with Eminem’s ‘Guess Who’s Back’ playing in the background.

According to the Telegraph, Donald Trump’s pal will present his show on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Farage’s show is frequently GB News’ top-rated and the right-leaning news network had a quiet general election campaign without him.

Farage had initially said he would spend most of the second half of this year campaigning for Trump in the U.S. but U-turned at the start of the general election campaign and was one of five Reform UK MPs returned to parliament, with the party securing around four million votes.

He became an MP at the eighth attempt. Rival politicians have questioned his commitment to local issues in the seat of Clacton and returning to the presenters chair will likely fail to quieten the noise.

But Farage is by no means the only sitting MP who has presented on the channel. GB News has frequently landed itself in trouble with Ofcom over the thorny issue of politicians presenting news programs. One of its presenters, Esther McVey, remains a Conservative MP, while two, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Phillip Davies, lost their seats. Speaking to Deadline before the election, Channel 4 lead anchor Krishnan Guru-Murthy said GB News represents “what Nigel Farage wants the future of the right to be.”

One day after the election, Trump congratulated Farage on his Truth Social platform, while failing to acknowledge new UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s landslide victory.