- Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, is alleged to have received undeclared financial benefits from a convicted criminal in the year before he entered parliament.
- The alleged benefits reportedly included funding for staffing, security, housing, and the use of a five-storey Georgian townhouse.
- After becoming MP for Clacton, Farage reportedly registered a £9,000 trip to Belgium and a £15,000 US flight donated by George Cottrell, but no other prior support.
- Parliamentary rules at the time required new MPs to register gifts worth more than £300 received in the previous 12 months if they could reasonably be thought to relate to their political activities.
- Reform UK has denied that its leader breached the code of conduct, saying that Farage was not an active politician during the period in question.
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