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Labour asks Electoral Commission to investigate claims Farage broke electoral law by not disclosing gifts – UK politics live

Politics The Guardian By Andrew Sparrow 07 Jul 2026 09:55 1 min read
Labour asks Electoral Commission to investigate claims Farage broke electoral law by not disclosing gifts – UK politics live

Parliamentary authorities are already looking into a £5m donation to the Reform Uk leader from the crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne Q: Do you think the parliamentary commissioner for standards should investigate Nigel Farage’s gifts from George Cottrell? Badenoch said that was a matter for the commissioner. [Farage is] hinting at press regulation. For all of the criticism and the attacks, and I would even say abuse that I’ve got from the press, I’ve never once recommended curbing our free

Parliamentary authorities are already looking into a £5m donation to the Reform Uk leader from the crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne

Q: Do you think the parliamentary commissioner for standards should investigate Nigel Farage’s gifts from George Cottrell?

Badenoch said that was a matter for the commissioner.

[Farage is] hinting at press regulation. For all of the criticism and the attacks, and I would even say abuse that I’ve got from the press, I’ve never once recommended curbing our free press. I think this is one of the amazing things about this country.

I would be very worried about a Reform government using government power to control the press. I don’t think that that would be right.

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