Zia Yusuf Accused Of Plotting To Replace Nigel Farage Amid Donations Row

Reform UK is facing yet more financial scrutiny.

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Zia Yusuf has been accused of plotting to replace Nigel Farage amid heightened scrutiny over Reform UK donations.

The party has been reported to the Metropolitan Police after an undercover sting operation accused Reform of accepting foreign funding, which goes against British electoral law.

Investigative journalists from Verbatim accused the party of allegedly taking funding from a US company to commission three supposedly independent polls at £32,500 earlier this year.

Reform’s head of policy James Orr and Farage’s close aide Dan Jukes organised the donation and were unaware the donors were actually undercover reporters.

Jukes has been accused of suggesting a way to work around British electoral law, too, so an American donor could give £500,000 to Reform UK.

Jukes and Orr have stepped down after the report was broadcast by Channel 4 News.

Reform insists it is not guilty of any wrongdoing and called the incident a........

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