The tangled financial web at the heart of Reform UK
Faced with scrutiny, Nigel Farage has made unsubstantiated claims about the Guardian’s reporting. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The GuardianView image in fullscreenFaced with scrutiny, Nigel Farage has made unsubstantiated claims about the Guardian’s reporting. But it has proved the most significant, and the consequences of the disclosure are still being played out.Little by little, a picture is emerging – one that shows how Reform UK has been funded and by whom.
- ▪Faced with scrutiny, Nigel Farage has made unsubstantiated claims about the Guardian’s reporting.
- ▪Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The GuardianView image in fullscreenFaced with scrutiny, Nigel Farage has made unsubstantiated claims about the Guardian’s reporting.
- ▪But it has proved the most significant, and the consequences of the disclosure are still being played out.Little by little, a picture is emerging – one that shows how Reform UK has been funded and by whom.
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Faced with scrutiny, Nigel Farage has made unsubstantiated claims about the Guardian’s reporting. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The GuardianView image in fullscreenFaced with scrutiny, Nigel Farage has made unsubstantiated claims about the Guardian’s reporting. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The GuardianReform UKAnalysisThe tangled financial web at the heart of Reform UKAnna IsaacNigel Farage’s £5m gift, the Cottrell family’s links and donations, and Richard Tice’s business dealings form part of an increasingly clear nexus of relationshipsSat 1 Aug 2026 02.00 EDTShareIt has been three months since the Guardian revealed that Nigel Farage had accepted a £5m gift from Christopher Harborne, a billionaire donor to Reform UK.This was not the first story in our continuing investigation.
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