Reform UK foreign funding violation investigation 2026
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Reform UK receives record donations
The Liberal Democrats and Greens have called for a cap on donations for people based in Britain to prevent future mega donations.
Angela Rayner refused to say whether cryptocurrency billionaires Christopher Harborne and Ben Delo would be caught up in rule changes on party donations.
Reform UK raised £30.5m since the start of the year before receiving two mega donations.
Second crypto billionaire donates $49m to Reform UK
Christopher Harborne donated $48.7m (£36m) to Reform UK.
Kemi Badenoch is the leader of the Conservative Party.
Andy Burnham replaced Keir Starmer as prime minister and Labour Party leader.
“That’s certainly a sentiment echoed by fellow billionaire Christopher Harborne, who compared Reform UK to a startup in need of a boost, because unlike the mainstream political parties, it doesn’t benefit from this inbuilt infrastructure of financial support and recurring donations.”
Reform UK receives two £36M donations from crypto billionaires
Each of the two £36 million donations are the largest ever given to a political party in the U.K.
Reform UK issued a statement on Saturday confirming that Harborne matched a £36 million donation from Delo.
Reform UK received two separate £36 million donations from Christopher Harborne and Ben Delo.
Police investigate Reform UK party for alleged campaign finance violations
Nigel Farage is described as a close ally of US President Donald Trump.
The polls funded through the arrangement were reported by national newspapers as independent.
The undercover report alleged that a US company was arranged to fund three polls commissioned by Reform UK.
“Following a broadcast by Channel 4 News on Thursday, 3 September, the Met received a number of reports relating to donations and polling involving a political party,”
Nigel Farage senior aides resign over donation scandal
James Orr is an associate professor of the philosophy of religion at the University of Cambridge.
The UK's Electoral Commission confirmed it was in contact with the police regarding the matter.
The investigation culminated in a lunch meeting between the undercover journalist, an actor playing the businessman, Jukes, and Farage.
“Look, Reform has had many great people who have helped get us to where we are. And I have no doubt, given the talent pipeline that I do have visibility of, both at parliamentary level, potentially, and beyond it, we will withstand this, and ultimately, ultimately will come out strong on the other side,”
Top Farage aides quit after undercover donations sting
Dan Jukes was Farage's long-term media chief.
Nigel Farage lost two of his closest advisers after they were caught in an undercover sting investigating party financing.
James Orr was Farage's senior policy adviser.
Farage's Reform accused of violating UK foreign funding rules
Channel 4 aired footage of senior Reform officials Dan Jukes and James Orr meeting with undercover reporters posing as prospective Reform backers from the United States.
James Orr said he had agreed to step down temporarily and would cooperate fully with the investigation.
Dan Jukes denied any wrongdoing but said he had stepped back from politics in order to clear his name.
Nigel Farage heckled while denying Reform UK took illegal funding
Nigel Farage denied that Reform UK took illegal foreign donations.
Nigel Farage was heckled by protesters while speaking at the Reform UK conference.
An investigative report appeared to show that Reform UK had accepted illegal foreign donations.
Nigel Farage's Reform UK gets a reboot
Nigel Farage said the party has "broken no laws".
Farage received an undeclared personal gift of 5 million pounds from cryptocurrency billionaire Christopher Harborne.
Farage resigned his parliamentary seat to prompt a by-election.