LONDON – Today is the highlight day of the Reform UK congress, but it has been spoiled by revelations of other suspicious funding to the party. In his speech this afternoon, leader Nigel Farage, instead of listing Reform’s successes in local elections and the policies he intends to adopt once in Government, will somehow have to respond to accusations of careless and possibly illegal management of the party’s finances.
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The scandal broke when the television channel Channel 4 last night broadcast footage, the result of a year-long undercover investigation, showing two of Farage’s closest collaborators plotting to accept a £500,000 donation circumventing the British electoral law that prohibits parties from accepting funds from foreign persons who do not have the right to vote in Great Britain.
A journalist from Verbatim Investigations pretended to be the son of an American billionaire who wanted to support the party and over months managed to gain the trust of the small number of people close to Farage. The secretly filmed video shows Dan Jukes, the leader’s right-hand man, and James Orr, the party’s policy head, giving the journalist detailed instructions on how to get the funds to Reform to circumvent the law.
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Both Jukes and Orr resigned this morning, both claiming they did nothing illegal. The party, while denouncing the footage as “a trap,” said it has opened an internal investigation and does not intend to comment on the matter until it is concluded. Reform also accused “environmental activists” of creating the scandal, since the journalist in question is an environmentalist. The police are examining the footage to decide whether to start a formal investigation.
In a video, the journalist is seen with an actor playing his father, a supposed billionaire, at lunch with Farage and other collaborators, and from the conversation it is clear that the party leader is aware of the donation. “I will be the official donor and my father will send the money to me and I will transfer it,” the journalist says to Farage, who replies “Thank you.”
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