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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

Reform UK challenged to give details on donations after £2m mailshot campaign

Nigel Farage laughing with supporter.
Farage was urged to rule out funding from ‘wealthy donors linked to Russia or the Trump administration’. Photograph: Adam Vaughan/EPA

The Liberal Democrats have publicly challenged Nigel Farage to give details of his party’s donations after calculating that Reform UK spent more than £2m on personalised letters to postal voters before the local elections.

In a letter to Farage, Daisy Cooper, the Lib Dem deputy leader, said people needed to know the source of the money before Thursday’s elections, given that Reform received only £281,000 in donations in the last set of publicly available figures, for the final quarter of 2024.

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