Sitting MPs have received almost £50,000 from presenting gigs on GB News since its launch a year ago, according to new Press Gazette analysis of the register of MPs’ financial interests.

Conservative MP Dehenna Davison was the biggest TV earner due to her regular Sunday morning presenting slot on the channel, making £1,879.17 per month since 1 April, up from previous payments of £369 per week. In total that means she has earned approximately £19,256.34 between the channel’s launch and 13 June 2022, exactly a year since her show began.

The other GB News recipients were married Conservative MPs Philip Davies and Esther McVey, who together interviewed Prime Minister Boris Johnson for the channel in April. Davies earned £9,500 for presenting 18 programmes while McVey earned a total of £19,510 for presenting 37 shows. Her rate appears to have risen from £495 per show last year to approximately £625 to £650 in 2022.