Nigel Farage has been caught on camera discussing a £500,000 donation to Reform UK through an undercover reporter posing as a US donor. According to Farage, he wasn't even paying attention when the discussion took place, saying "I frankly wasn't even listening". His party is facing scrutiny over potential electoral law breaches and has been reported to the police.
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Mr Farage and his former chief of staff Dan Jukes were filmed talking with an undercover reporter, posing as a US donor, about giving £500,000 to Reform through his UK-based son.
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Farage → film → son
“I frankly wasn't even listening.”
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I → listen → ?
He added that he was only at the lunch “to come and say hello”.
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he → add → lunch
“The money could come from all over the world, you know.
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you → come → world
Income could have came from all over the world into a family office based in London.
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Income → come → London
I know electoral law.
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I → know → law
I know donation law better than anybody.”
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I → know → anybody
Accepting donations from an overseas company, including donations in kind for surveys and research, could constitute a criminal offence, and the party has been reported to the police.
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party → accept → police
Mr Jukes as well as Mr Farage’s former head of policy, James Orr, have both stepped down after being recorded talking about how to get money to the party from an American donor and asking a fake company to pay for polling.
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Jukes → step → polling
The scandal has overshadowed Reform UK’s annual political conference in Birmingham where Mr Farage acknowledged he expected “many more investigations over the course of the next few months”.
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he → overshadow → months
Speaking on the final day of the rally, the Clacton MP again insisted his party had broken no laws.
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party → speak → laws
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He said he was certain Reform had accepted no illicit contributions and dismissed claims by Mr Jukes that the party had previously concealed the origin of some donations as “loose pub talk”.
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party → read → talk
Mr Farage, who is already facing scrutiny over his failure to declare a £5 million gift from Thailand-based crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne, said investigations “will go on”.
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investigations → face → Harborne
“You come back and see me in six months, there’ll be five more investigations,” he said.
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he → come → months
“It won’t end.”
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It → end → ?
Blaming the establishment for the scrutiny, he added: “They are not going to give us a free ride.
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They → blame → ride
“They will do anything they can.
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they → do → anything
I expect many more investigations over the course of the next few months, I have no doubt about it.”
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I → expect → it
In his closing speech at party conference Mr Farage told delegates “sometimes we will get things wrong and get a bit of a kicking for it”.
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things → close → it
The Reform leader said: “I’ll tell you what we learned yesterday and today.
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we → say → what
“More often than not, things will be put upon us that are unfair.
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that → put → us
“But sometimes we will make mistakes, sometimes we will get things wrong and get a bit of a kicking for it.
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things → make → it
“But what this conference has shown is whatever you throw at the leadership, whatever you throw at you, the people’s army, we immediately pick ourselves up, dust ourselves down and start all over again.”
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we → show → ourselves
Bridget Phillipson, Chair of the Labour Party, said: "Farage finishes conference as he started: with desperate excuses and pathetic deflection tactics to try to distract from his and his party's shady finances.
“The sleaze and scandals engulfing Reform aren't going away.
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sleaze → say → Reform
Farage needs to wake up, take responsibility and realise the buck stops with him.”
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buck → need → him
