Farage says £5m gift a reward for Brexit campaigning

Farage says £5m gift a reward for Brexit campaigning12 minutes agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleRichard WheelerandJamie McConkeyPA MediaNigel Farage has said that £5m he received from a billionaire Reform UK donor was given as a "reward for campaigning for Brexit".The Reform leader also told The Sun he "cannot be bought by anybody" and the money from Christopher Harborne was given to him on a "completely unconditional basis".Farage has previously said he was under "no obligation" to declare the gift because he received it before he was elected as Clacton MP, it was for his "personal security" and "wasn't political in any sense at all".Reform's opponents have said he should have declared it in the MPs' register of interests when he was elected to Parliament in 2024.The Parliamentary Standards Commissioner has launched an inquiry into whether or not Farage broke Commons rules by accepting the gift and not declaring it.Farage said he is not concerned about the investigation. Asked if he was worried about what people thought of the gift given the scale of it, Farage replied: "It's very unusual for someone to give up 27 years of their life to campaign for something."And this was given to me on an unconditional basis, completely unconditional basis. But frankly, it was given as a reward for campaigning for Brexit for 27 years."On whether it had an impact on his decision to return to public life, Farage replied "no" before also saying "I cannot be bought by anybody".Harborne, a British cryptocurrency investor who lives in Thailand, in April told The Telegraph that he "wasn't expecting anything in return apart from ensuring his safety" when referring to the gift.Harborne also said he gave the money to Farage "because of my great admiration for the decades of work he had done to achieve Brexit".The Conservatives wrote to Parliament&...