{"id":13057,"date":"2026-04-30T23:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/gb-news-halts-for-nigel-farage-breaking-news-announcement-daily-express\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T23:32:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T23:32:00","slug":"gb-news-halts-for-nigel-farage-breaking-news-announcement-daily-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/gb-news-halts-for-nigel-farage-breaking-news-announcement-daily-express\/","title":{"rendered":"GB News halts for Nigel Farage breaking news announcement – Daily Express"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Nigel<\/picture>GB News<\/a> was paused as Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage<\/a> claimed a source has informed him that Iranian operatives have been arriving in the UK’s best-connected. As a breaking news banner flashed at the bottom of the screen, the politician told GB News viewers: \u201cI do have a source who is one of the best connected human beings in the world that I know. He told me last night that he knows for a fact that over the course of the last few weeks, there have been Iranian operatives who have been crossing the English Channel in small boats.
\u201cTo put that in simple terms, we are importing terrorists into our country from across the English Channel, and I challenge the British government to tell me I am wrong. Tell me I am wrong because, given everything we are seeing, it would make sense that they would do that.\u201d
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\u2018We\u2019re importing terrorists, and I challenge the British Government to tell me I\u2019m wrong.\u2019<\/p>\n

Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage exclusively reveals that a source has informed him that Iranian operatives have been arriving in the UK by small boats. <\/p>\n

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Farage is now publicly demanding a response from Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood.
He added: “I’m going to ask the Home Secretary publicly, ‘Am I right, am I wrong, or do I get a no comment?”
According to the latest data, over 30,000 Iranians have illegally crossed the Channel since 2018, including 4,500 last year. This number constitutes 16 per cent of all small boat arrivals.
GB News viewers flocked to comment on Farage\u2019s claims, with one writing on X: \u201cExtraordinary claims need actual evidence. If someone has proof of \u2018operatives\u2019 arriving by small boat, they should publish it. Until then, it\u2019s just another rumour dressed up as intelligence. If you don’t share your evidence you are complicit.\u201d
A second added: \u201cAbsolutely zero evidence provided! If Iran wanted to send its ‘operatives, ‘ they’d do what everyone else does and send them over as embassy staffers.\u201d
Another added: \u201cFarage claims we’re ‘importing terrorists’. Convenient timing. The real problem is weak vetting, ECHR rules and no returns policy. Painting every small boat arrival as an IRGC plant is lazy xenophobia.\u201d
Meanwhile, another said: “We want these Labour MPs and the PM tried for treason against the people when you get in Nigel.”
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