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Farage faces questions over failure to declare use of donor’s helicopter

Christopher Harborne](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/10/farage-trying-to-avoid-scrutiny-over-5m-gift-from-crypto-billionaire-labour-says). Farage has said the donation was to cover his personal

John Healey says Labour infighting puts government’s credibility at risk

Christopher Harborne, who [donated £5m to Nigel Farage](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/29/revealed-nigel-farage-was-given-undisclosed-5m-by-crypto-billionaire-in-2024) before he stood at the general

Tuesday briefing: Can a deeply divided UK agree on an assisted dying bill?

Christopher Harborne donated £1m to a private company Boris Johnson set up after resigning as prime minister. Composite: LNP/Getty Images/Guardian Design **The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

How Reform won votes from Swansea to Sunderland

donation of £3m from cryptocurrency investor and aviation entrepreneur Christopher Harborne. That has allowed Farage

Crypto billionaires help Reform cement fundraising lead

Farage's party, according to latest filings, whilst Christopher Harborne, who lives in Thailand, donated

Reform UK leader Farage faces parliamentary probe over nearly $7m gift

Farage said he accepted the donation from Thailand-based billionaire and crypto investor Christopher Harborne

Reform UK raising millions more than other parties, donation figures show

Farage’s party took a £3m donation from the cryptocurrency and aviation investor, Christopher Harborne

Nigel Farage’s Russian hack claim ‘without any merit’, former NCSC chief says

Farage is yet to ask the NCSC to investigate his apparent belief that the Guardian’s revelation of the multimillion-pound donation by crypto billionaire [Christopher Harborne

Watchdog weighs investigation into Farage’s undisclosed £5m donation

donation”. The Tory party chair, Kevin Hollinrake, said Farage had been “obliged” to declare the gift. “The Conservatives are today referring [Nigel Farage](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/nigel-farage) to the parliamentary standards commissioner. This £5m from

Farage deploys the rottweiler to distract from awkward £5m gift story | John Crace

Farage had been given a £5m handout by Christopher Harborne](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/29/revealed-nigel-farage-was-given-undisclosed-5m-by-crypto-billionaire-in-2024), a Thai-based crypto dealer. A donation

Keir Starmer's party lost big in U.K. local elections. Here's what comes next.

Farage has faced criticism for taking millions of pounds in personal donations from Thailand-based crypto-currency billionaire Christopher Harborne

How a £2m bitcoin order made Nigel Farage the political face of UK crypto

Christopher Harborne](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/04/nigel-farage-reform-uk-donation-brexit-party-christopher-harborne-crypto-uk-politics), an investor in the cryptocurrency firm Tether, making it the largest donation of its kind in UK history. And it wasn’t just the usual centrist and left-leaning suspects

Farage’s attempt to get ahead of £5m gift story only raises more questions

donations and political gifts he had received during the previous 12 months. The Conservatives are today referring [Nigel Farage](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/nigel-farage) to the parliamentary standards commissioner. “This £5m from the crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne

Farage suddenly returns to political stage – but dodges questions about £5m gift

Christopher Furlong/Getty Images The Guardian was not invited to the press conference and was told on arrival that it would not be permitted to ask a question because it had not submitted official accreditation

Cameo, speeches, pushing gold bullion: how Farage has made millions since becoming an MP

Christopher Harborne, as [revealed by the Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/29/revealed-nigel-farage-was-given-undisclosed-5m-by-crypto-billionaire-in-2024) last week, which he says was [for the purposes of ensuring his security](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/29/nigel-farage-christopher-harborne-gift-story-raises-more-questions) for the rest of his life. It was given

Follow the money: How far-right Reform UK built a global network

Christopher Harborne. Farage himself is a global networker. In December, he flew to Abu Dhabi at the expense of the United Arab Emirates to attend events and meet officials, despite building a political brand centred

Farage received £5m from donor before he became MP

Christopher Harborne before he became an MP, it has emerged. In an [interview with The Telegraph](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04/29/nigel-farage-my-home-was-firebombed/), the Reform UK leader said he had been given the money to pay for personal protection

‘It is unsustainable’: Reform’s billionaire donors inspire panic in Westminster

Christopher Harborne and Ben Delo. To put that in context, [Labour](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour) managed to raise £6m from all private donors in the first quarter of 2024 – just before the last election, when

Reform UK spending on Facebook ads surged before May elections

Farage’s party attracted £5.5m in the last quarter of 2025, more than all the other parties. It also included a £200,000 donation from JC Bamford Excavators – traditionally a Conservative donor – which gave

Farage under mounting pressure to prove Russian hack claim

Christopher Harborne. Reform UK claimed over the weekend that analysis of Farage’s phone by “counter-espionage experts” suggested that “Farage’s phone, email and bank accounts were compromised by hostile actors, almost certainly linked