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The Money Was Legal. That Was the Problem.

For the best part of a year, two undercover reporters worked their way into Reform UK's fundraising circle, posing as wealthy Americans with British connections looking to back the right horse. It ended, in September, with a lunch in Birmingham during conference week — Nigel Farage at the table,

Electoral Commission

The Watchdog That Waits for Channel 4

The footage is not complicated. A senior Reform aide, at a lunch arranged by people posing as an American donor and his British-based son, discusses whether that son might funnel £500,000 to the party, a sum that, structured that way, would fall foul of the rule that only permissible

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The Number They'll Say, and the One They Won't

Robert Jenrick stood on a stage in Birmingham and promised to be careful. Reform UK, he told the conference, would cut £80bn of public spending within five years, and would do it "in a careful way, not a cack-handed way." He wants tax cuts too, starting with a

Reform UK

Reform's Real Donors Never Have to Resign

Friday morning at the NEC in Birmingham, delegates were queuing for photographs with a cardboard cutout of Nigel Farage while, somewhere off camera, James Orr and Dan Jukes were clearing their desks. Two senior Reform UK officials, gone within hours of a Channel 4 broadcast, over a sum that would

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Reform's £80bn Is Being Marked by Bondholders, Not Voters

At a fringe event in the Birmingham NEC, under conference-hall strip lighting, Robert Jenrick promised £80bn of spending cuts over five years and pledged to do it "in a careful way, not a cack-handed way." The number breaks down like this: £50bn from welfare, £10bn from net zero,

welfare

The Welfare Cut That Answers to Nobody

Somewhere in Clacton-on-Sea this week, a Personal Independence Payment claimant either opened a brown envelope or didn't, because most people stop reading DWP letters until the money stops arriving. Nigel Farage's own constituency has one of the highest concentrations of PIP claimants in the country. His

Reform UK

The £50bn Saving That Assumes Brussels Says Yes

Danny Kruger, Reform's work and pensions spokesman, went on BBC Breakfast this week to explain how his party would fund £50bn of welfare cuts, and somewhere in the answer he conceded that Brussels might retaliate by cutting off British pensioners in Spain and France. "I'd