The party’s finances have come under intense scrutiny over recent weeks, and the Metropolitan Police are looking at whether donors might have got around restrictions on political funding

Exclusive: Sources say Fiona Cottrell told bankers the transfers, received 24-72 hours before her donations to Reform, came from her son

Crypto gambler George Cottrell is alleged to have transferred three large sums to his mother Fiona in the days before she gave money to Nigel Farage's Reform UK party.