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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Ben Quinn Political correspondent

Parliamentary watchdog decides against inquiry into £80,000 loan to Reform’s deputy leader

Richard Tice and Nigel Farage sitting at a table with microphones in front of them.
Richard Tice with Nigel Farage. The investigation against the latter has been paused as he is not currently an MP. Photograph: Jacob King/PA

Parliament’s standards watchdog has declined to investigate a complaint made against Richard Tice over an undeclared loan of nearly £80,000 from Nigel Farage’s aide George Cottrell.

The Liberal Democrats had referred Reform’s deputy leader to the parliamentary standards commissioner, which was investigating Farage after the Guardian’s revelation that he received an undeclared £5m gift from the crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne.

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