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F<\/span>lanked by union jack flags, with a spectacular view of the City of London behind him, Nigel Farage<\/a> said he had \u201cnever been angrier\u201d. In an address that was billed as a \u201cstatement on my future in public life\u201d, the leader of Reform UK, the rightwing, anti-immigration party that remains ahead in most national polls but which has been dipping recently, said he would not tolerate any more of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt seems to me that the establishment have now decided that they can\u2019t beat us fairly, so they\u2019ve chosen to use foul means,\u201d Farage said.<\/p>\n

He was referring to the Guardian\u2019s revelation that he had received an undeclared \u00a35m gift from the crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne as well as the more recent allegations \u2013 not denied \u2013 that Farage had also taken undeclared funding<\/a> for his staffing, security and housing from George Cottrell, a convicted criminal and Gloucester-born aristocrat.<\/p>\n

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Parliament is investigating whether the \u00a35m gift, made to Farage within 12 months of him becoming an MP in summer 2024, could reasonably be thought by others to relate to his \u201cparliamentary or political activities\u201d and was therefore in need of being declared. He denies it. There is pressure for the authorities to look into the Cottrell money too on the same grounds.<\/p>\n

But this sort of scrutiny of the evidence by independent professionals was not at all Farage\u2019s preferred solution, it transpired. Instead, Farage was going to resign as the member of parliament for Clacton, a faded seaside town in Essex, and then seek re-election all over again. \u201cI have decided that the people of Clacton will be the judges of my actions,\u201d he said. \u201cThis will be a people versus the establishment byelection.\u201d<\/p>\n

Farage, the public school educated son of a stockbroker, Guy Justus Oscar Farage, has often played this card: presentation of himself as a tribune for the little man. For much of his political career, Farage\u2019s message was that he was the only politician socking it to Brussels and fighting back against the intrusive tentacles of the EU.<\/p>\n

They, the elite, had crushed Britain\u2019s fishing industry by giving foreigners rights to its waters. They had threatened the traditional British imperial measurements (pounds, ounces, pints, and yards) through the enforcement of alien European metrication (kilograms, grams, litres and metres). It was the globalist establishment that wanted Britain to stay in the EU, he argued. Farage was said to be the conscience of the working man and woman.<\/p>\n

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