Reform declines to say if £72m donors returned to UK within 12-month limit

Reform’s deputy leader, Richard Tice, said Ben Delo had moved back to the UK from Hong Kong ‘many, many months ago’. Photograph: Temilade Adelaja/Reuters

Reform UK’s deputy leader has declined to say when two crypto billionaires who gave a combined £72m to the party returned to the UK, as the architect of a review into overseas donations said anyone here for less than 12 months would be subject to a limit on donations.

Richard Tice said that while he was completely confident Reform had complied with all current and proposed laws on donations, he could not say when Ben Delo returned to the UK from Hong Kong, or how much time the Thailand-based Christopher Harborne spent in Britain.