Richard Tice Stirs Speculation Fellow GB News Host Nigel Farage Will Join Reform UK

Richard Tice, leader of Reform UK, stirred the pot revealing that his GB News colleague Nigel Farage is “giving a lot of thought” to joining his Reform UK party in a return to the political arena.

Addressing journalists in a press conference Wednesday, Tice, who has been at the helm of Reform UK since 2021, revealed Farage is considering whether to take up a role within the party.

With Reform UK, previously known as the Brexit Party, already doubling its poll ratings in the past year, the buzz of Farage’s possible comeback has added fuel to the fire. After Farage said he would not join the Conservative Party as long as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was its leader, hedging with Reform UK would amplify the party’s already growing threat to Tory dominance of the right-wing vote.

“A good poker player does not show their hand too early,” he remarked, when asked about Farage.

Lauding Farage as “the master of political timing,” Tice said that his colleague’s decision would not hold the party back.

“The job at hand is so big, to save Britain, the more help Nigel is able to give in the election campaign the better,” he continued.

As speculation mounts, all eyes are the election in a political landscape bracing for potential upheaval. Tory deputy chair Lee Anderson, also a GB News host, warned that if Farage were to join Reform UK the party could “pick off” Conservative MPs. He described the party as a “bigger threat to the country at the moment than the Labour Party.”

Meanwhile, the opinion-led GB News network, which has breached media watchdog Ofcom’s impartiality rules on a number of occasions, looks set to come under increasing pressure for its growing roster of elected political representatives, with calls to strengthen rules that TV stations can’t use their broadcasts to influence viewers to vote for any party or person.