London, 04 Sep 2026 – Two officials of the British anti-immigration party Reform UK (Reformist) resigned today, following allegations that they advised a potential US financier to circumvent British laws, triggering an internal investigation.
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04/09/2026
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Non Thursday, Channel 4 broadcast a news report filmed with a hidden camera, in which one sees a collaborator close to the leader of the Reformist party, Nigel Farage, proposing a mechanism to legitimize the donation of £500,000 (about €580,000) from a foreign businessman, an amount that would violate British electoral legislation.
An official suggested that the alleged entrepreneur finance surveys for donation in kind, which could bypass scrutiny.
The US donor and his son were in fact an actor and a journalist working for an organization called Verbatim Investigations, which facilitated filming on the British channel.
A spokesman for the party said an internal investigation had already been launched.
“ The two people involved resigned from their respective positions while awaiting the conclusions of the investigation”, announced on Friday a spokesman for the party in a statement.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage argued that the party “did not break any laws” or accepted “money of doubtful origin.”.
The new accusations add up to other suspicions about party funding, which for months led the polls and is currently tied with the Labour Party.
Farage faces a parliamentary investigation into a payment of £5 million (about €5.8 million) received in 2024 from the cryptocurrencies entrepreneur Christopher Harborne.
The undeclared amount, which Farage claimed to have been a personal gift, was only released following a report from The Guardian newspaper and could be considered illegal because it happened months before the parliamentary elections.
Police are also investigating two donations of £250,000 (about €291,000) each, made that year by Fiona Cottrell, mother of George Cottrell, former Farage's advisor convicted in the United States for financial crimes.
The news coincides with the second day of the annual congress of the radical right-wing populist party, in which the intervention of the president of the French far-right party National Union, Jordan Bardella, is foreseen.
During the afternoon, Farage will deliver a speech, the most important moment of the meeting, which runs until Saturday in Birmingham (centre of England).
The Congress, which began on Thursday, was already haunted by accusations by British journalists who had been refused access.