Reform UK leaderâs 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 Farageâs latest entry in parliamentâs register of interests, published on Tuesday. Anna Turley, the Labour party chair, said: âHe pretends to be on the side of ordinary working people but in truth heâs just in it for himself and will sell his time to the highest bidder. âHe should be focused on putting more pounds back in his Clacton constituentsâ pockets rather than racking up payments off the back of gold sales.â 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
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Nigel Farage says he will resign as MP for Clacton and stand in the subsequent by-election, after facing intense scrutiny over financial support he has received. The Reform UK leader said the "people of Clacton should be the judges of my…
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Nigel Farage says he will resign as MP for Clacton and stand in the subsequent by-election, after facing intense scrutiny over financial support he has received. The Reform UK leader said the "people of Clacton should…
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Read original at The Guardian →Reform UK leaderâs 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…
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Nigel Farage says he will resign as MP for Clacton and stand in the subsequent by-election, after facing intense scrutiny over financial support he has received. The Reform UK leader said the "people of Clacton should be the judges of my…
View source →Exclusive: Latest Guardian revelation about gift from cryptocurrency tycoon comes as Reform UK leader forces byelection The £5m gift to Nigel Farage by a cryptocurrency billionaire was reported to the National Crime Agency by bankers who…
View source →The Reform UK leader wants voters to overrule parliamentary accountability. Labour should expose the trick, then offer a politics that works Nigel Farage, Brexitâs snake-oil salesman, is at it again. The Reform UK leader is under…
View source →Reform UK leader confronts journalist after question about gifts from friend and convicted fraudster Nigel Farage has said Sky News bosses face âserious consequencesâ in an outburst triggered by questions over fresh revelations about…
View source →Measures to be announced to make funding more transparent amid new revelations about Reform UK leader Ministers will launch a crackdown on large political donations on Monday, as Nigel Farage faces a possible second investigation into…
View source →With voters embracing leaders who brazenly monetise public office, experts say an ethical code is breaking down Donald Trump came to office in 2017 after decades of bankruptcies and business failures. Yes, he was rich, but his latest…
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