Robert Jenrick says party has followed legal protocol ‘at all times’ as Met police consider launching investigation
Nigel Farage has acknowledged the overseas donation row engulfing Reform UK “looks bad” for his party but denied it had ever taken foreign money in breach of electoral law.
The Reform leader, who is battling to contain the fallout from the allegations, was asked if he could categorically rule out that foreign money had ever been funnelled to his party. He replied: “I can. Never happened.”
Farage was forced to suspend his close aide Dan Jukes and Reform’s head of policy, James Orr, on Friday after they were filmed in an undercover investigation apparently plotting to get around electoral laws on foreign donations.
In an interview with the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg, Farage described their comments as “injudicious at best” and admitted the optics of the undercover filming were problematic for his party, which has in the past tried to suggest it would do politics differently.
