Robert Jenrick says questions about £5m donation to Farage are legitimate

Robert Jenrick told an audience at the British Chambers of Commerce global annual conference that voters had not mentioned the donation to him. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

Robert Jenrick has said it is “legitimate” for the media to ask questions about Nigel Farage’s £5m personal donation from a cryptocurrency billionaire, just days after the Reform UK leader told an interviewer it was “none of your business”.

Jenrick, who is Reform’s shadow chancellor, said voters on the doorstep were not asking about the money given to Farage by the Thailand-based British crypto investor Christopher Harborne.