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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Vanessa Thorpe Arts and media correspondent

Boris Johnson yet to appear on GB News 10 months after being signed up as a presenter

Boris Johnson, with hair ruffled and slightly smiling, holds up both hands with an expression of surprise while speaking at a Conservative campaign event
Boris Johnson campaigns at a Conservative party election event in London on 2 July. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA

Ten months ago, GB News unveiled a broadcasting coup. Their latest talent signing was a big one: the former prime minister Boris Johnson was to join the team to put his own idiosyncratic spin on the channel’s political coverage and to pay particular attention to analysis of the forthcoming British general election.

Eight months after this news broke, there was indeed a general election in Britain, but Johnson had yet to appear at the GB News studios, in London’s Paddington Basin. And now, as the end of summer draws near, a spokesperson for the channel is unable to confirm whether Johnson will ever take up his role.

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