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Major Donor to Reform U.K. Party Sold Weapons Parts to Russian Supplier

Summary by Martin Plaut
The aerospace company H.R. Smith Group was an early backer of the party after Nigel Farage became leader. Reform has faced criticism over comments seen as supporting Moscow. Nigel Farage at an event for his populist Reform U.K. party in Britain last year. The British aerospace manufacturer H.R. Smith Group donated to the party soon after he was announced as Reform’s leader. By Jane Bradley New York Times, Reporting from London March 28, 2025, 5:…
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One of the biggest corporate donors to the Populist Reform Party in the UK has sold transmitters worth nearly $2 million, cabin equipment, antennas and other sensitive technologies to a major supplier of the state weapons agency on the Moscow blacklist, show the documents. From 2023 to 2024, the company, part of the British aerospace manufacturer HR Smith Group, sent the team to an Indian company that is the largest trading partner of the Russia…

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Martin Plaut broke the news in on Friday, March 28, 2025.
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