Richard Tice accused of ‘nasty tactics’ over legal threat to the Guardian

Richard Tice’s lawyers wrote to the Guardian over reporting about financial transactions that were referred to the National Crime Agency. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/EPA

Reform’s deputy leader Richard Tice has been accused of using “nasty tactics” in an attempt to intimidate journalists and deflect attention from his own financial affairs after issuing a legal threat to the Guardian.

In a letter sent from his lawyers, a Guardian correspondent was singled out for her reporting on a series of Tice’s financial transactions that were referred to the National Crime Agency.