Five weeks and around £250,000 of taxpayers' money have been spent on Nigel Farage’s desperate bid to avoid legitimate scrutiny over his finances.

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And here’s the kicker - it hasn’t even worked.

Within hours of the Reform leader being re-elected in Clacton, parliament’s standards watchdog re-opened its probe into his failure to declare a five million pound gift from crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne. As you were, then.

The reason questions over Farage’s finances aren’t going away is because he fails to provide any convincing answers. His justification for not declaring the Harborne gift doesn’t add up - he claims he didn’t have to because he wasn’t politically active at the time, despite being the majority shareholder of Reform UK!

And his explanation as to what the money is for also keeps changing. First we were told it was to cover his security costs, then it was a reward for Brexit........

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