550. Will Farage's Extreme Wealth Be His Downfall?
7/2/202651 min
How has Farage become the highest earning MP, while still claiming to be “for the everyday Briton”? Has Farage become part of the establishment? And how much more is there to discover about Farage’s £5 million "gift"?
Join Alastair and Cat Neilan, journalist at the Observer, as they answer all these questions and more.
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First 90 secondsAlastair Campbell· Host0:00
Just this week, Nigel Farage declared his biggest single payment yet as an MP, 270,000 pounds for 12 hours of work from a gold bullion dealer. That works out at 22 and a half thousand pounds an hour, which is double what the same company paid him just nine months earlier, and it comes not long after Nigel Farage was found to have accepted five million pounds as a gift from a crypto billionaire who lives in Thailand. This is the man who built his entire political career on being the voice of ordinary, left-behind Britons, the man of the people fighting for the people, now one of the wealthiest politicians in British history. So how did we get here? How has a party supposedly for the ordinary working man and woman ended up attracting money from some of the richest people in the world, and what do they expect in return? We've been inundated with questions following our four-part miniseries on who funds Reform, so it's time that we answered some.
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