Farage Defends £5 Million Gift as Standards Probe Presses Reform UK
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Updated · bbc.co.uk · Sep 2
Farage Defends £5 Million Gift as Standards Probe Presses Reform UK
3 articles · Updated · bbc.co.uk · Sep 2
Summary
Nigel Farage said the UK had become a "complainants' society" as he faces a parliamentary standards investigation over a £5 million payment from donor Christopher Harborne before the last election.
Farage said he expects to be interviewed soon and wants the inquiry to move faster now he has been re-elected after the Clacton by-election pause.
The standards commissioner is examining whether the money should have been declared when Farage entered Parliament; he argues it was a personal gift, not registrable under Commons rules.
Farage said he had done "nothing wrong" and cast the scrutiny of Reform UK funding as part of an establishment backlash against a party he says threatens the century-old two-party system.