Nigel Farage received £270,000 from gold marketer he promotes

Reform UK leader’s Direct Bullion payment is double his fee from 2025 Nigel Farage received £270,000 from a gold marketer for which he is a brand ambassador, his single biggest payment as an MP. The Reform UK leader has been criticised in the past over his £400,000-a-year second job promoting the idea for Direct Bullion that people should buy physical gold and put it in their pension pots. The £270,000 payment, which is double his fee from 2025, was received in May and appears in Farage’s latest entry in parliament’s register of interests, published on Tuesday. Anna Turley, the Labour party chair, said: “He pretends to be on the side of ordinary working people but in truth he’s just in it for himself and will sell his time to the highest bidder. “He should be focused on putting more pounds back in his Clacton constituents’ pockets rather than racking up payments off the back of gold sales.” The Reform leader continues to face pressure over a separate £5m gift from Christopher Harborne, the Thailand-based crypto investor who has given millions of pounds to the party. Farage has said the payment, which the Guardian revealed in April, was a gift and so did not need