Reform UK leader claims he is victim of ‘hit job’ as parliamentary standards commissioner investigates £5m donation
Nigel Farage now faces up to four investigations by Daniel Greenberg, the parliamentary commissioner for standards – although it is possible that some of them could be merged and considered as part of the same complaint.
After the Guardian revealed that Farage received £5m from the cryptocurrency billionaire Christopher Harborne shortly before the 2024 general election, the commissioner launched an inquiry into claims that this was a breach of rule 5 of the code of conduct for MPs, which is about the requirement to register interests. There is a reference to this on the commissioner’s website.
[Farage] received £5m from a crypto billionaire and then privately lobbied the Bank of England on digital currencies. Did the Reform leader carry out paid lobbying?
While operating in the Norwegian Sea on Operation Firecrest, the UK’s Carrier Strike Group was repeatedly approached by a Russian ‘Bear-F’ maritime patrol aircraft.
The Bear-F passed at low altitude and unnecessarily close to HMS Prince of Wales and dropped a large number of sonobuoys in close proximity to the carrier.
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