Parliamentary Standards Commissioner Daniel Greenberg has opened an investigation into Nigel Farage over an undeclared £5 million donation from Christopher Harborne. Under Rule 5: members must “fulfil conscientiously the requirements of the House in respect of the registration of interests in the Register of Members’ Financial Interest”…
A Reform spokesman said:
“Mr Farage’s office is in communications with the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards.
“He has always been clear that this was a personal, unconditional gift and no rules were broken.
“We look forward to this being put to bed once and for all.”
Nigel Farage has told the Telegraph his house was targeted in an arson attack last year:
“It was an outright arson attempt. I wasn’t at home at the time, but when I came back and opened the door I found the damage. Luckily it had burned itself out in the porch, and we think maybe the perpetrators were disturbed in the act. The police were all over it. They did their best but there are no suspects so far… I’m acutely aware of the love for me, but equally the levels of antipathy that exist. Sometimes things happen when there are cameras there, but there are plenty of times when things don’t make the news, like pints of beer being thrown over me or the attack on my home.”
He also revealed Christopher Harborne gifted him ‘a seven-figure sum’ for personal security in early 2024, just before his return to politics:
“This money was given to me so that I would be safe and secure for the rest of my life… I have tried and failed in the past to get security funded by the Home Office and I don’t think the state will ever help me. I’m very much on my own and will be for the rest of my life, and I have to face up to that…”
Grim…
Farage on whether Kanye West should be banned from entering the UK over antisemitic comments:
“I wouldn’t buy a ticket… his comments are vile… but I think if we start banning people from entering the country because we don’t like what they say I worry where that ends up… it’s a dangerous path to go down.”
Nigel Farage has just confirmed Simon Dudley has been sacked as Reform’s housing spokesman:
“He is no longer a spokesman for the party. That’s been dealt with… the comments were deeply inappropriate. Richard Tice has dealt with him”.
Dudley claimed post-Grenfell regulations had “swung too far the wrong way” and “everyone dies in the end“. Now he’s out…
Sir Robin Wales, Labour mayor of Newham from 2002 to 2018, will become Reform’s London director of local government. Wales’ close aide Clive Furness will be Reform’s mayoral candidate in Newham. Watch along above…
Nigel Farage has announced he will unveil Reform’s Shadow Cabinet in a “few days’ time“. Reports emerged earlier this month that Robert Jenrick will get the Shadow Chancellor brief, with Zia Yusuf taking home affairs, and Tice getting business and energy. Before the weekend, Guido heard rumours of Suella getting education. As reported in Guido Whispers…
He added that a general election “could come more quickly” than 2027, and opened the candidate application portal this afternoon. Starmer is imploding, stranger things have happened…
Lee Anderson, speaking to The Sun’s Tom Scotson, reveals the wokest thing he’s ever done: “I once had a vegetarian thought, about becoming a vegetarian. That was quickly dismissed when I had a bacon sandwich…”