British lawmaker nominated Biden for Nobel Peace Prize (but not in 2025)

In September 2025, weeks before U.S. President Donald Trump's scheduled state visit to the U.K., a claim (archived) circulated online that a member of the British parliament (MP) nominated Trump's predecessor, the former U.S. President Joe Biden, for the Nobel Peace Prize. 

Trump has previously said he believed he deserved the Nobel Peace Prize but that the Nobel Committee, the body responsible for awarding Nobel Prizes, would "never" give it to him. The committee awards the prize for extraordinary efforts in "arms control and disarmament, peace negotiation, democracy and human rights, and work aimed at creating a better organized and more peaceful world."

One X user, whose post had more than 500,000 views at the time of this writing, posted a news article, titled, "British member of Parliament nominates Biden for a Nobel Peace Prize" and captioned the image, "I second this. Joe deserves this prize."

The claim also circulated on Facebook (archived), Instagram (archived), Threads (archived) and Bluesky (archived). Snopes readers searched our site to see if news about the nomination was true.

However, we found no evidence that a British MP nominated Biden for the Nobel Peace Prize in September 2025, when claims circulated (archived, archived, archived, archived). Some claims shared a screenshot of an article from The Hill published in 2020. That article said the British MP Chris Bryant nominated Biden for the Nobel Peace Prize. Bryant did make (archived) this nomination in 2020, but we found no evidence he had re-nominated Biden in 2025.

Despite still being an MP as of this writing, Bryant was also promoted to a ministerial position in 2024 after the Labour Party won the general election. Ministers are either MPs or members of the House of Lords who are part of the U.K. Government.

On Sept. 5, a spokesperson from Bryant's parliamentary office said via email that "ministers are not allowed to make nominations and therefore this is an historical story." In other words, due to the U.K. Ministerial Code, which sets out the standards of conduct expected of ministers and how they discharge their duties, he could not have re-nominated Biden in 2025 even though he was able to do so when he was just an MP in 2020. Therefore, we rate this claim false.

On Nov. 6, 2020, days after that year's presidential election that put Biden and vice president Kamala Harris in the White House, Bryant wrote on X, "I'm proud I nominated @JoeBiden for the Nobel Peace Prize. His zen like calm is going to be vital now, calming the troubled waters, binding the nation's wounds and strengthening the international rules based order."

Bryant originally made the nomination on Sept. 28, 2020, according to the Standard, a London-based newspaper. Bryant reportedly told the Standard, "When others have resorted to violent solutions, he has argued that the best force is the force of argument. Because guns can stop a heart but well-placed words can change many hearts, and many hearts can change a world."

The Nobel Committee awarded the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, which Bryant's nomination would have put Biden in the running for, to journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Andreyevich Muratov "for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace."

Before that year's prize announcement, in August 2021, Bryant condemned Biden's comments on the U.S.'s withdrawal from Afghanistan as "the most shameful comments ever from an American president".