Labour challenges Farage over cost of private jet trip to Maldives

Farage initially recorded the cost of his two-day trip to the Maldives as £12,500, before doubling the figure.
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Labour has queried Nigel Farage’s claim that a return trip to the Maldives on a private jet linked to a billionaire donor cost as little as £25,000 as the Reform leader attempted to reach the Chagos Islands.

Farage initially recorded his two-day trip to the Maldives as costing £12,500 funded by Thailand-based Reform megadonor Christopher Harborne, before upgrading this to £25,000 in the latest register of interests.