UPDATE 12th August, 2025: Yet again this week Reform UK hosted a press conference at 11am Monday morning, in their new studio. While Sky News again retained greater editorial control, they still choose to cover it while other broadcasters (excluding GB News) decided it was not newsworthy enough. With this in mind we have updated our template email to ask Sky News what further steps they will take to ensure greater balance.
UPDATE 4th August, 2025: In the week since we launched this campaign, over 6000 of you have written to Sky News to complain. Thanks to your efforts, at yet another Reform UK press conference earlier today, Sky News chose to exercise greater editorial control over what they aired, instead of simply broadcasting the live feed from Reform UK. We welcome this change - but will continue to monitor coverage, and we will take further action if needed.
In July Sky News broadcast a Reform UK press conference live from their new 'briefing room' - 2 days in a row.
On Monday 28th and Tuesday 29th July, Nigel Farage announced press conferences responding to current news events.
On both occasions Sky News has carried live coverage from Reform UK on their channel.
Their new 'briefing room' is effectively a TV studio of its own, and if broadcasters carry the livestream they are outsourcing editorial content - and editorial control - to one political party.
On Tuesday 29th from 11:38am to 11:48am Sky News showed Party Chairman, Zia Yusuf, interviewing Party Leader, Nigel Farage. This is not an appropriate interview for a broadcaster to show live to millions of people on their channel.
They even prioritised it over coverage of England's Lionesses parade in Central London (shown on the right hand side).
Since then, Reform UK have continued to hold press conferences every Monday at 11am, and Sky News continue to cover them live. While they have retained greater editorial control of their broadcast, it is very unusual for a political party to organise a press conference at a fixed time every week, and know that it will get coverage.
We want to keep the pressure on Sky News to ensure fair, balanced coverage of UK politics. So far over 6000 of Best for Britain's supporters have so far made a complaint to Sky News using the simple form below - and you can too.