Nigel Farage and Reform UK broke election law by accepting foreign funds, investigation finds

Nigel Farage and his Reform UK party breached British election law by knowingly accepting foreign funds, a media investigation by Verbatim and Channel 4 News has found, prompting calls for a criminal investigation. The undercover probe showed Farage and senior figures, including policy head James Orr, accepting up to £32,500 from an American source for opinion polls and discussing £500,000 in further donations, all undeclared to the Electoral Commission. Former EC chief Bob Posner said serious criminal offences may have been committed, and Labour has referred the matter to police. Orr and aide Jukes resigned following the report's publication. The revelations add to existing scandals, including undisclosed funding from a cryptocurrency billionaire and a convicted criminal, as Reform leads opinion polls ahead of the next election.