Nigel Farage has announced he will present a daily show on GB News after stepping back from frontline politics earlier this year.
He teased his supporters that he was making the big announcement at 5pm yesterday.
The former Reform UK leader will host Farage at 7pm on the national news channel from Monday.
In a video announcing the news, Mr Farage said “I will not be taking the knee for anyone on this show” in reference to presenter Guto Harri, who made the gesture on air earlier this week.
It comes amid reports the channel’s director of news and programmes, John McAndrew, has stepped down and Harri has been taken off air.
Mr Farage said: “Since politics I have done a fair bit of broadcasting and broadcasting matters. It really, really does.
“It gets people to look at issues, think about issues in different ways and can be very influential.”
Mr Farage, former leader of the UK Independence Party, said he had more than three years broadcasting experience at LBC and suggested he had enjoyed “some degree of success” at the talk radio station.
“On YouTube I’ve had millions of people watching my videos and often I’ve covered stories that everybody else wants to ignore,” he added.
Earlier in the day, he said on Twitter he would be announcing a “big career change”.
In the time between his pre announcement and his big reveal a few people had some ideas what job he really should have
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And this very rude one
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