Best For Britain, the Remainer outfit co-founded in 2017 by Gina Miller, has launched a petition demanding Ofcom “takes immediate action” over Nigel Farage presenting on GB News. They want a formal investigation into whether his show on 15 September 2026 broke impartiality rules and want Ofcom to tell viewers whether anything on a channel with “News” in its name is actually news or just opinion. Snooze…
They have also built a tool to email Ofcom’s chief executive directly, asking how Farage can host a show about donations when Reform banked £72 million. Pity the inbox…
Ofcom’s prior crusade against GB News ended in humiliation at the High Court in February 2025. A judge quashed its rulings against Jacob Rees-Mogg’s State of the Nation, found Ofcom had misread its own rules, and made it pay GB News’ legal costs. Two weeks later Ofcom dropped all its remaining investigations into politicians presenting on the channel – including one into Farage himself. How has the baying mob changed its whinging strategy since? Oh wait, it hasn’t…
Best For Britain know all about regulators catching rule-breakers. The Electoral Commission found the group committed two offences after it failed to return an impermissible £50,000 donation within 30 days. It handed the cash back late and paid a £900 fine on 9 December 2025. The Electoral Commission said at the time:
“The political finance laws are in place to ensure that parties and campaigners can only accept money from permissible sources. Where a donation is impermissible it must be returned promptly and reported for transparency.”
Glass houses furnished with black pots and kettles…
Krishnan Guru-Murthy asked John Healey: “Just finally, I mean Andy Burnham has been very clear he wants Britain back in the European Union in his lifetime. Do you?”
The Chancellor replied: “I’m older than Andy Burnham. I don’t expect to see that.”