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The former British prime minister will join the country’s Fox News Channel equivalent in 2024 as a pundit commenting on upcoming national elections in Britain and the U.S.
By Etan Vlessing
Canada Bureau Chief
Former British prime minister Boris Johnson has landed at the upstart GB News network, the U.K. equivalent of Fox News Channel, as a TV presenter, series producer and on-air pundit.
Johnson will join the right wing TV channel in 2024 and be a commentator for GB News coverage of the U.K. general election expected next year and the U.S. presidential election across the Atlantic. “GB News is an insurgent channel with a loyal and growing following. I am excited to say I will be joining shortly — and offering my frank opinions on world affairs,” Johnson said in a statement on Friday.
In July 2022, Johnson resigned as leader of Britain amid a mass revolt by his own governing Conservative Party, which put an end to his three years in power. Johnson also resigned as a member of Parliament from his Uxbridge constituency to give himself a freer rein to write books, return to doing a column for the Daily Telegraph newspaper in the UK and get set to join GB News.
“I’m delighted to say, GB News has got Boris ‘done’!” GB News editorial director Michael Booker added in his own statement, with an echo of Johnson’s “Get Brexit Done” political slogan that helped him and the Conservative Party win a landslide general election victory in 2019 ahead of taking Britain out of the European Union.
“We are tremendously proud to have him join the GB News family, particularly as we head into a seismic year of politics both here and across the Atlantic,” Booker added.
From his upcoming British TV perch, Johnson is expected to continue as a thorn in the side of the current British prime minster, Rishi Sunak, a political rival who will lead the Conservatives into the next general election against a strong challenge expected from the opposition Labour Party.
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