GB News’s head boy leaps to defend Farage over Russiagate on the BBC

Nathan Gill, the former head of Reform Wales, was found guilty of taking pro-Russian bribes this week. As a result, many have demanded to know what Reform and Nigel Farage knew about Gill, and whether they also have links to the Kremlin. One person defending them, meanwhile, is GB News host and overgrown head boy Tom Harwood:

“Nathan Gill was leader of Reform UK in Wales for 43 days. That’s a few Scaramucci’s, sure, but not quite a full Liz Truss.”pic.twitter.com/7rrxFXpewE

— Tom Harwood (@tomhfh) November 22, 2025

One-liners from GB News head boy

Appearing on the BBC, Harwood was asked:

Tom, you’re at GB News alongside Nigel Farage. How is this going to land with his supporters and your GB News audience?

GB News’s Harwood responded:

Well, it’s obviously not a good story for Nigel Farage, but I think what Farage would say is that he’d want to put it in context. Now, Nathan Gill was leader of Reform UK in Wales for 43 days. That’s a few Scaramucci’s, sure, but I’m not sure it’s quite a full Liz Truss.

Harwood was so proud of that final sentence that he quoted himself in his own tweet.

If you have no idea what he’s talking about, he’s referencing the short-lived PM status of Liz Truss, and the ten day White House career of minor American political figure Anthony Scaramucci. For some reason, politicians and media personalities with no discernible personality think they can make these pre-written lines work – even when they’re British and they’re referencing little-known Yank nobodies.

The GB News head boy continued:

So I think that that’s one of the contextual elements that the Reform team is positing today.

Harwood is suggesting Reform have nothing to answer for, because Gill was only the Welsh leader for 43 days. The first problem with this is that Gill didn’t just come out of nowhere; he was in UKIP and the Brexit Party along with Nigel Farage.

The second problem is that the length of time he was leader for has no bearing on what he did or what his colleagues knew. The men who conducted the Great Train Robbery didn’t spend very long on the train, but time wasn’t the issue; the issue was what they robbed the train.

The BBC host pushed back against the GB News lackey:

He was in UKIP. He was in the Brexit party. He was. They were in essentially the same party for many years.

Others have pushed back too:

embarrassing attempt at defending this, tom, try harder

— cez (@cezthesocialist) November 23, 2025

Totally embarrassing Tom.
He states Farage as his political hero and has been Farages friend for 20 years and in every single party Farage, Tice, Bull and Nuttall have been in. pic.twitter.com/x0SgazRnc5

— Mike H (@mikoh123) November 23, 2025

Bless pic.twitter.com/iufc6CLgzg

— John (@john_notabot) November 22, 2025

Journalists like Carole Cadwalladr, meanwhile, are continuing to push back against the idea that Gill was a lone wolf:

Gill pleaded guilty but he did so after refusing to cooperate with the police investigation or answer any questions. See the video below https://t.co/yvpuEKxijo

— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) November 23, 2025

Politics

Far be it from the Canary to suggest GB News political commentators shouldn’t involve themselves in politics. At the same time, we would say that if you’re going to defend a political party, you should at least have a half-decent defence.

Or, to put it in a way Harwood might understand, you need to spend longer than 0.05 Scaramucci’s on your argument.

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