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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Alexandra Topping and Josh Halliday

Nigel Farage says questions over his finances are part of ‘coordinated pile-on’

Nigel Farage speaks on stage at the Cpac conference.
Nigel Farage speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in London’s docklands. Photograph: Henry Nicholls/AFP/Getty Images

Nigel Farage has accused people raising questions about his financial backing of “demonising” him as part of a “coordinated pile-on” to stop Reform UK.

In one of his first speeches since the opening of two parliamentary standards inquiries into his financial support, the Reform leader said he had been “dehumanised in the most extraordinary way” in recent months, after the Guardian revealed in April that he had received a £5m gift from the crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne before the last election.

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