Nigel Farage is Britain's highest-paid MP after earning nearly £1.2m a year from GB News (plus £16,500 for saying hello to people on Cameo)
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- He earns thousands more filming online greetings and is gifted boxing tickets
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Nigel Farage is thought to be Britain's highest-paid MP after his register of interests revealed he makes almost £1.2million a year from appearing on GB News.
Clacton's newly elected MP - who got to know his local community by jetting off to the United States in a bid to catch the eye of Donald Trump - earns many times more than Reform MP Lee Anderson, who is paid £100,000 a year for his presenting role.
The register shows Reform leader Farage is paid £97,928.40 a month for 32 hours of work presenting his show, which airs Monday to Thursday.
He also made £16,597.22 from hiring himself out for personalised videos on Cameo - where he has been duped into saying rude names and using pro-Irish Republican slogans by pranksters - and earns £4,000 a month writing for the Daily Telegraph.
The register also shows he was paid £11,783.55 by the AZ Liberty Network, an American conservative civic engagement group, for a future speaking engagement.
Nigel Farage makes almost £1.2million working for GB News as a presenter each year, the parliamentary register of interests shows
His earnings outstrip those of Lee Anderson, who is paid £100,000 a year for his presenting role
He also made £16,000 from recording videos for Cameo
Farage was gifted £2,000 ringside seats for a Derek Chisora fight by the boxer against Joe Joyce at The O2 last month
Chisora joined Nigel Farage on the campaign trail in Clacton during the general election in July
The register notes that the payment is a deposit and that the final amount will change.
Farage was also gifted £2,000 ringside seats by Derek Chisora, who joined him on the campaign trail in a gown labelled 'Nigel's Security', for a fight against Joe Joyce lats month.
Farage joined GB News three years ago as the channel stuttered into life and suspended his presenting duties during the election to focus on campaigning.
Following his success in Clacton - which came after he consistently denied he was planning on running, or taking up the helm as the leader of Reform UK - he returned to the channel as a presenter.
He also made £1,550 through X, formerly Twitter, where as a 'verified' account he can receive a chunk of the advertising revenue from ads shown next to his posts, and £853 from Facebook parent company Meta.
The list shows that investor Christopher Harborne donated £32,836 to Mr Farage to visit Donald Trump in the US, following the assassination attempt on the former president earlier this year.
The description for this donation states: 'To support a friend who was almost killed and to represent Clacton on the world stage.'
He was also given £9,253.60 by George Cottrell, UKIP's former head of fundraising who served prison time in the US after being convicted of wire fraud, to attend the National Conservatism conference in Brussels in April this year.
On the visit to Brussels, Mr Farage spoke at the conference, where Conservative MP Suella Braverman and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban were also in attendance.
Mr Farage has been criticised for failing to engage with his new constituents in Clacton, Essex, after beating out the Conservative candidate in a shock result with a 8,405 majority.
Jo Maugham, founder of the Good Law Project, told The Guardian: 'You look at these numbers and you wonder, has Nigel Farage catapulted himself to the top of the list of highest earners in Clacton? Great for him, but it's not really public service, is it?'
Farage's huge earnings from work outside of his job as an MP in Clacton mean he is likely the highest-earning member of parliament
He jetted off to Milwaukee, Wisconsin last month shortly after being elected in a bid to catch the eye of Donald Trump
Farage attending the state opening of parliament last month, a day before he set off for the US. He is not believed to have held a surgery in Clacton
Farage has sought to shake off criticism that he bears any responsibility for the recent riots that have shamed Britain after being accused of sharing inflammatory posts on social media.
Leeds MP Alex Sobel accused him of 'exacerbating' the situation in the wake of the Southport stabbings after Farage tweeted that the 'politics of the subcontinent are currently playing out on the streets of Leeds... Don't say I didn't warn you'.
Farage has also denied claims that he is allied with the Kremlin after Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov's spokesperson called him 'an ally'.
Ofcom has repeatedly found that GB News has breached broadcasting rules on impartiality, which allow politicians to present current affairs programmes but not act as newsreaders.
The media watchdog has previously investigated programmes presented by former Tory MP Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, as well as former Conservative minister Esther McVey and former backbencher Philip Davies.
Married couple Ms McVey and Mr Davies are no longer part of the channel's line-up.
It also ruled that a programme featuring ex-prime minister Rishi Sunak broke broadcasting rules, breaching impartiality guidelines by failing to give 'due weight' to an 'appropriately wide range of significant (political) views'.
The People's Forum: The Prime Minister programme, Ofcom said, had given the ex-PM - who hand to hand back the keys to No 10 following July's devastating landslide election - a 'mostly uncontested platform to promote (his) policies'.
On Friday evening, the full list of MPs' registered financial interests was published.
As well as receiving a salary from GB News, Mr Anderson was paid £1,000 to write an article for the Daily Express.
And the British Association of Shooting and Conservation gifted the Ashfield MP an overnight stay, dinner and clay shoot which totalled £708 in March.
Farage was contacted for comment.
