You’d expect the public face of Brexit to be punished by voters. But history shows that leaders often profit from the chaos they sow. The biggest Brexit donor was the stockbroker Peter Hargreaves.
Our scoop about NigelFarage receiving an undeclared £5m “gift” from the crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne shortly before the Reform leader declared he would stand in the 2024 general election gained a lot of traction.
“There’s no money in politics,” NigelFarage told an American podcast at the beginning of June 2024. The show’s host, a bearded, despot-curious YouTube contrarian, raised his eyebrows and made an odd little noise, but Farage added.
Jake Berry, the former Tory chairman who defected to NigelFarage’s party last year, made the embarrassing blunder during a painful interview on on BBC Newsnight... Farage initially insisted this money ...
It is called Hyperbole Road... If Andy Burnham can beat Reform in a seat where the local election result is against him – a Brexit bastion and a redoubt of the white working class – then NigelFarage no longer looks like the next prime minister ... Oh well.
Andy Burnham has a better chance than Keir Starmer of winning a general election against NigelFarage’s Reform UK, new polling suggests ... Sir Keir to save the UK from Mr Farage becoming prime minister.
'Reform says Andy Burnham would stand 'anywhere' to benefit his own career. It is perhaps a little rich from a party whose leader contested seven elections in six different constituencies between 1994 and 2015' ... .