Arron Banks ‘hired private detective’ to look into journalist who investigated Reform UK

Arron Banks said he believed the Sunday Times used hacked information, an accusation the newspaper denied. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

The prominent Reform UK member and Brexit campaigner Arron Banks is said to have set private investigators on a Sunday Times journalist after he broke a series of stories about Nigel Farage.

Banks is alleged to have paid for the services of investigators to examine Gabriel Pogrund, editor of the paper’s Insight investigations team.