Stay up to date with notifications from The IndependentNotifications can be managed in browser preferences.Jump to contentThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged inAllNewsSportCultureLifestyleNigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, is alleged to have received undeclared financial benefits from a convicted criminal in the year before he entered parliament. The alleged benefits reportedly included funding for staffing, security, housing, and the use of a five-storey Georgian townhouse. After becoming MP for Clacton, Farage reportedly registered a £9,000 trip to Belgium and a £15,000 US flight donated by George Cottrell, but no other prior support. Parliamentary rules at the time required new MPs to register gifts worth more than £300 received in the previous 12 months if they could reasonably be thought to relate to their political activities. Reform UK has denied that its leader breached the code of conduct, saying that Farage was not an active politician during the period in question. In fullNigel Farage ‘did not declare financial support from convicted criminal’More bulletinsThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in
Farage denies wrongdoing over reports of undeclared financial benefits
Stay up to date with notifications from The IndependentNotifications can be managed in browser preferences.Jump to contentThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged inAllNewsSportCultureLifestyleNigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, is alleged to have received undeclared financial benefits from a convicted criminal in the year before he entered parliament. The alleged benefits reportedly included funding for staffing, security, housing, and the use of a five-storey Georgian townhouse. After becoming MP for Clacton, Farage reportedly registered a £9,000 trip to Belgium and a £15,000 US flight donated by George Cottrell, but no other prior support. Parliamentary rules at the time required new MPs to register gifts worth more than £300 received in the previous 12 months if they could reasonably be thought to relate to their political activities. Reform UK has denied that its leader breached the code of conduct, saying that Farage was not an active politician during the period in question. In fullNigel Farage ‘did not declare financial support from convicted criminal’More bulletinsThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in
