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Nigel Farage defends himself over foreign donation claims
The Liberal Democrats say two aides arranged US-funded polls worth £32,500, while Farage faces a separate investigation over a reported £5 million gift.
- On Friday, Labour and the Liberal Democrats reported Reform leader Nigel Farage to the Met Police after Channel 4 broadcast undercover footage showing senior aides discussing ways to secure foreign donations totalling £500,000.
- The broadcaster's investigation alleged aides facilitated foreign donations by disguising their source, prompting two senior officials to step down pending internal inquiry while Reform denies breaking any laws.
- Channel 4 claims three polls were commissioned this way at a cost of £32,500 total, with the public not told who funded them. Farage said his party had "done nothing wrong" and taken "no illegal money."
- The Electoral Commission said it is considering all relevant information in touch with Met Police, while Dan Jukes alleged "entrapment over a prolonged period of nearly a year by foreign-funded climate change activists."
- Farage dismissed the allegations as "loose pub talk" and "a couple of boasts that simply were not true," vowing Reform would not be distracted from its agenda by what he called a "highly co-ordinated campaign of attacks.
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