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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
John Crace

What a week for Daddy Nige and his dysfunctional Reform family

A man holding a sign that reads: Daddygate: One scandal too many, alongside pictures of George Cottrell and Nigel Farage.
A protester holds up a banner of George Cottrell and Nigel Farage outside the Houses of Parliament. Photograph: Amer Ghazzal/Shutterstock

We need to talk about Nigel. Again. Not so much about the £5m gift from a Thailand-based crypto billionaire, or the freebies he accepted from a convicted fraudster who called him Daddy. Nor the fact that he never thought to declare his good fortune on parliament’s register of members’ interests.

There again, he was only a professional politician and the principal shareholder in Reform UK at the time. And why would anyone feel the need to account for a gift from someone who identified as his son? After all, it’s not as if Nige also tried to lobby the Bank of England to change its rules on crypto. Oh, scrub that. He did.

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