GB News Is Putting The Brexit Into Breakfast

'My job is to start the day with a bang: to speak up for Brexiteers, the forgotten working classes'

If you’re a Brexiteer who likes a bit of spice with your breakfast, there’s some good news: every Tuesday and Wednesday for the foreseeable future, I’m co-presenting GB News Breakfast, from 6-9.30am

It’s a bittersweet gig: I’m covering for Eamonn Holmes, who is currently unable to work after having surgery on a recurrent bad back. Obviously I’m delighted to bag a presenting job with Britain’s fast-growing news channel, but I’d give it up in a heartbeat to have Eamonn back.

We’ve been mates since his early days on Sky News. When I edited lad’s mag loaded, I wrote in the Independent that I thought Eamonn was excellent as Sky's new anchor. He phoned me that same morning - the snobs in TV land had been mostly slating him - and we became great pals.

My job is to start the day with a bang: to speak up for Brexiteers, the forgotten working classes and those concerned about the big issues of the day, such as rocketing illegal immigration, asylum hotels and the Net Zero madness that is bankrupting the poorest.

You could call those opinions “common sense”.

But as such opinions are entirely missing from the Remainstream media, perhaps common sense isn’t very common, after all?

Despite being a pundit for 13 years, I’d never presented before, but was thrown in at the deep end last weekend, with Angela Rippon. After my first shift they gave me the following Mon-Weds, so I guess I passed the audition.

I got the scoop from Ben Habib that he was returning to politics. My good pal, Tory rebel Lee Anderson, had a pop at Gary Neville. Labour’s James Murray admitted they needed £14 billion in tax and borrowing to meet their 2030 Net Zero targets.

Tory Immigration Minister Rob Jenrick got both barrels over his party’s dismal attempts to stop the boats. I put it to Labour’s Jonathan Reynolds that Keir Starmer’s plans to cut immigration sounded more Nigel Farage than Jeremy Corbyn.

I also jumped the gun on a Brexit Twitter poll, which massively swung from 80% in favour of Brexit to 55% against after Remain Twitter hijacked it live on air.

The video of me screwing up – I read out the results a minute before the poll closed, when Brexit was winning, only for it to swing 6% in the final seconds – has now been seen over 2.5 million times. The trolls loved it. I got my arse kicked, social media engagement went nuts – and GB News gave me a job. Happy days! Moral: don’t announce a poll’s results until it’s closed. In fact, Nigel Farage advised me not to do Twitter polls at all…

So far it’s been a blast, and politically it’s only going to get more exciting, as the Tories implode. Will Labour get in? Will Nigel Farage once again ride in to save the day?

Only time will tell: so please join me on GBNews Breakfast, every Tuesday and Wednesday 6-9.30am until Eamonn returns. In the meantime, I hope I do him - and you - proud.