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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Michael Savage Media editor

Reform’s Fleet Street ‘spoilers’: tactic party deploys to get ahead of stories

Nigel Farage looks at the camera wearing a blue 'Make America Great Again' baseball cap in front of stands of people at a Donald Trump rally in Pennsylvania in 2024
Nigel Farage has to decide whether he wants to ‘go down the Trumpian route’, says Sunday Times editor Ben Taylor. Photograph: nigel_farage

Late on Tuesday afternoon, as the British media was absorbing Nigel Farage’s shock decision to hold a byelection amid scrutiny over his finances, his Reform UK party supplied the Telegraph with a different story.

The article revealed that Richard Tice, Reform’s deputy leader, had accused the National Crime Agency (NCA) of leaking financial information to the media. Both he and Farage had been the subject of the claimed leaks, Tice said.

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