Reform is ramping up its recruitment drive for its own online TV channel – officially ‘Reform TV’, not Farage TV – and newsroom at its Millbank Tower HQ. Twelve positions have opened up so far…
Aaron Lobo, until now the party’s Director of Operations and previously Farage’s executive producer at GB News, is leading the operation. It will include a studio, a digital newsroom, a central social media desk and a data team. In other words, a huge operation…
One job ad describes the big money mission:
“A central priority will be the development of Reform TV and Reform UK’s wider broadcast and video output: creating distinctive programmes and formats, commissioning original content, maximising the Westminster studio and building the production capability required to deliver ambitious live and recorded output at speed… [a] high-output media operation capable of delivering at national scale in the build-up to the next general election and beyond.”
A big team stuffed with presenters, directors, and producers does not come cheap…
Kemi Badenoch at the 1922-ConHome bash last night:
“I did praise [Burnham] for his stamina, it was amazing. All I had to do was sit back and lie there. I didn’t have to do anything at all…”