Exclusive: Crypto has become a major source of funding for Nigel Farage’s party, accounting for nearly 60 per cent of its total donations since 2024
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has received £20m in donations from cryptocurrency investors since the general election, The Independent can reveal.
An analysis of Electoral Commission data shows that a staggering 60 per cent of the right-wing eurosceptic group’s funding comes from wealthy individuals associated with the digital currency since the beginning of 2024.
The largest donations, totalling £15m, came from crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne, whose separate undeclared donation of £5m directly to Mr Farage is the subject of a parliamentary probe.
Revealed: Reform rakes in £20m in donations from crypto investors, Harriette Boucher & Millie Cooke, independent.co.uk
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Badenoch attacks Farage over £5m gift and rules out Tory-Reform pact
Conservative leader says Reform UK’s poor showing in this week’s byelections leaves idea of deal ‘stone-dead’
Kemi Badenoch has attacked Nigel Farage over the £5m gift he received before the general election as she ruled out an electoral pact with Reform UK.
The Tory leader questioned Farage’s acceptance of the gift from the Thailand-based crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne in the months before he stood to become an MP in 2024.
Badenoch attacks Farage over £5m gift and rules out Tory-Reform pact, The Guardian