Ben Habib broke away from Nigel Farage’s Reform UK and began his personal social gathering in 2025.
Ben Habib appeared on our podcast, The Every day Expresso (Picture: The Specific)
A politician has claimed he was banned from GB Information and Discuss TV, with one star sending him a surprising message. Ben Habib, Nigel Farage’s former deputy at Reform UK, now leads his personal social gathering – Advance UK – after a falling out. He appeared on The Specific’s podcast, The Every day Expresso, and recalled how he had appeared on Martin Dormney’s GB Information present to debate the launch of Advance UK in June, 2025.
“I introduced it that day and that was the final time I used to be on,” Mr Habib mentioned. “And GB Information unashamedly has now, I am afraid, grow to be the Farage channel. It will not tolerate any opposition to Reform or any calling it out. And I take it as a praise, JJ. They’re clearly involved… the arguments I make will resonate and that I subsequently pose a problem.”
This he referred to as “cancel tradition” and “undemocratic”. Mr Habib added: “It is like, fantastic, it is a business enterprise. They will do regardless of the hell they want to.
“And after they cancelled me, I did say, ‘You possibly can cancel me, [but] you are not going to cease me.’
“And so they have not stopped me.”
Advance UK has 40,000 members, the social gathering’s chief mentioned. He added: “We’re making waves. I am more and more on media in a means that I wasn’t for a lot of months.
“I’m going again to being on my entrance foot with all issues political.
“So you’ll be able to’t silence Advance UK, and I feel GB Information has made a giant mistake.”
Mr Habib additionally alleged that Discuss TV had “cancelled” him.
Considered one of its presenters, he claimed, advised him: “You are a lunatic; you might be difficult Reform. I will do no matter I can to have you ever banned and to stop you from going ahead.”
Ben Habib was Nigel Farage’s deputy (Picture: Getty)
Every day Expresso host, JJ Anisiobi, mentioned, referring to Mike Graham: “Discuss [TV], the place they… used to have a man who thought you could possibly develop concrete, they’re calling you a lunatic. That is smart? Goodness gracious.”
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Mr Habib mentioned: “However I am very grateful to Discuss [TV] for coming round and giving me the chance to be on their numerous exhibits.
“And I have been on. Kevin’s [O’Sullivan] clearly nice, however I have been on with Jeremy Kyle and others now, and Andre Walker and possibly others, yeah.”
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