Nigel Farage rejects scrutiny from UK parliament and calls a ‘people v establishment’ byelection

Reform UK leader says he has ‘never been angrier’ – but opposition leaders accuse him of a ‘desperate stunt’ Flanked by union jack flags, with a spectacular view of the City of London behind him, Nigel Farage said he had “never been angrier”. In an address that was billed as a “statement on my future in public life”, 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. “It seems to me that the establishment have now decided that they can’t beat us fairly, so they’ve chosen to use foul means,” Farage said. He was referring to the Guardian’s revelation that he had received an undeclared £5m gift from the crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne as well as the more recent allegations – not denied – that Farage had also taken undeclared funding for his staffing, security and housing from George Cottrell a convicted criminal and Gloucester-born aristocrat. Continue reading...