Nigel Farage paid almost £98,000 a month to present GB News
Clacton MP Nigel Farage is paid almost £98,000 a month to be a presenter on GB News, his register of interests has revealed.
The Reform UK leader is paid £97,928.40 a month by the broadcaster, for 32 hours of work.
Meanwhile, Mr Farage’s party colleague Lee Anderson is being paid £100,000 a year by GB News for eight hours work a month.
During the general election, Mr Farage cancelled his show, which aired Monday to Thursday each week, to focus on campaigning but following his success in Clacton he returned to the channel as a presenter.
Ofcom has repeatedly found that GB News has breached broadcasting rules on impartiality, which allow politicians to present current affairs programmes but not act as newsreaders.
The media watchdog has previously investigated programmes presented by former Tory MP Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, as well as former Conservative minister Esther McVey and former backbencher Philip Davies. Married couple Ms McVey and Mr Davies are no longer part of the channel’s line-up.
On Friday evening, the full list of MPs’ registered financial interests was published.
In addition to his GB News earnings, Mr Farage made £4,000 on Cameo, a platform on which well-known people record personalised videos for paying customers.
Mr Farage also earns £4,000 a month writing articles for the Daily Telegraph.
The list shows that investor Christopher Harborne donated £32,836 to Mr Farage to visit Donald Trump in the US, after the former president had been shot at earlier this year.
The description for this donation states: “To support a friend who was almost killed and to represent Clacton on the world stage.”
George Cottrell donated £9,253.60 to Mr Farage to attend the National Conservatives conference in Brussels in April this year.
As well as receiving a salary from GB News, Mr Anderson was paid £1,000 to write an article for the Daily Express.
And the British Association of Shooting and Conservation gifted the Ashfield MP an overnight stay, dinner and clay shoot which totalled £708 in March.
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Where there is muck there is money…
Proper lad.
Money grabbing weasel 💰
So, ARTD boss getting a tidy sum for spreading hate, man of the people eh. You have to wonder on a platform that is losing money hand over fist, what the worth is and how long it remains and who the backers are that can afford such a loss. Look at the station output, you can see that is a reform platform in all but name at the moment. Probably why ARTD wants it back on the Senedd estate systems. Wonder if anything is missing from Farages declaration. Bet convicted felon Trump is now well aware of where Clacton is.… Read more »
Oh heck, he does pick them. George Cottrell. Just had a look see and if the same one, well…… quite a circle of convicted felons, no venn diagram if the same dude?
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/07/former-nigel-farage-aide-us-information-plea-deal-court-files-george-cottrell
Putin’s toff far-right puppet a man of the people only for the gullible.
Maybe that TV channel will go bust paying silly money to blokes barking in their private echo chamber. Sadly us mugs are funding the BBC doing exactly the same with talking heads from the other extreme.
BBC are not that bad and we know where the BBC money comes from.
We have hospitals in dire need of a cash injection, pensioners losing their heating allowances, people sleeping on the street, others trying their best to make ends meet etc. and then we have this guy, who is good for nothing really and contributes sod all to society, earning nearly £100k a month. Something has gone radically wrong somewhere.
The majority in Wales supported him in 2016!
Not exactly a majority but that is the way with votes (more people didn’t vote for it, it should never have been based on 50%), what people that voted for brexit fell for was a con, the grift, lies, smoke and mirrors, that was his part in it. It continues.
G B News is backed by big money people unknown people own it its very very Right wing Fascist even Farage bo2 Trice was in Germany with a meeting with a secret society in Germany full of far Right Politicians from around the world and very rich people so it says in the Daily Mirror perhaps its them paying money to Tommy Robinson and his Anarchists
Spreading hate and rolling it in at the same time. Astonishing that anyone is taken in by this shyster.