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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rowena Mason Whitehall editor

Nigel Farage cries ‘witch-hunt’ – but this may be Reform’s Partygate moment

Nigel Farage
Nigel Farage holds a press conference in April. The Reform leader is being investigated by the standards watchdog. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

With his personal funding once again under media scrutiny, Nigel Farage, the leader of the rightwing Reform UK party, is adamant he is the victim of an “establishment plot” trying to stop him from reaching Downing Street.

This time, Farage is facing questions about support for his lifestyle from the convicted criminal George Cottrell, just months after it was revealed by the Guardian that he also took £5m from the cryptocurrency billionaire Christopher Harborne as a personal gift.

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