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.
Reform UK says the extra £72m will be used to hire up to 400 campaign managers in every target seat around the country.
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 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 received two separate £36 million donations from Christopher Harborne and Ben Delo.
Reform UK issued a statement on Saturday confirming that Harborne matched a £36 million donation from Delo.
Second crypto billionaire donates $49m to Reform UK
Kemi Badenoch is the leader of the Conservative Party.
Ben Delo is the 42-year-old co-founder of the BitMEX cryptocurrency exchange.
Reform UK is the successor to the Brexit Party, which changed its name in 2021.
“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.”
Police investigate Reform UK party for alleged campaign finance violations
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.
The investigation follows an undercover report by Channel 4 alleging Reform UK breached campaign finance laws by using foreign donors to pay for political polling.
“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 heckled while denying Reform UK took illegal funding
An investigative report appeared to show that Reform UK had accepted illegal foreign donations.
Nigel Farage addressed Reform UK's party conference in Birmingham on Friday.
Nigel Farage was heckled by protesters while speaking at the Reform UK conference.
Farage's Reform accused of violating UK foreign funding rules
James Orr said he had agreed to step down temporarily and would cooperate fully with the investigation.
The supposed donor's son was actually another journalist from the investigative group Verbatim.
Dan Jukes denied any wrongdoing but said he had stepped back from politics in order to clear his name.
Top Farage aides quit after undercover donations sting
Nigel Farage lost two of his closest advisers after they were caught in an undercover sting investigating party financing.
Channel 4 broadcast footage apparently showing Dan Jukes and James Orr agreeing to take donations from a foreign benefactor via a middle-man in the U.K.
James Orr was Farage's senior policy adviser.
Nigel Farage senior aides resign over donation scandal
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.
Dan Jukes is widely regarded as Farage's right-hand man.
“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,”
Nigel Farage's Reform UK gets a reboot
Channel 4 News alleged that Reform UK officials breached political donation rules by arranging to have polling paid for by an overseas company.
Farage won the by-election, with his closest rival Count Binface receiving nearly 10,000 votes.
Farage received an undeclared personal gift of 5 million pounds from cryptocurrency billionaire Christopher Harborne.