- Nigel Farage has dismissed allegations of Reform UK breaching political donation rules, saying that his former right hand man Dan Jukes was guilty of “loose pub talk”.
- Mr Jukes and Reform official James Orr have resigned after a Channel 4 News report alleged that the party accepted funding from a US firm for polling.
- The party launched an internal investigation into claims that a US company paid £32,500 for three polls commissioned earlier this year.
- Undercover reporters from investigative group Verbatim posed as a wealthy American financier and his son to conduct the sting operation.
- Mr Jukes was filmed appearing to suggest a method to circumvent UK electoral laws to secure a £500,000 foreign donation.
- Mr Farage accused far-left activists of targeting Reform UK figures in an “exercise in entrapment”.
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