{"id":3347,"date":"2026-07-07T20:35:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T20:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=3347"},"modified":"2026-07-07T20:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T20:35:14","slug":"reform-uks-farage-says-hell-quit-as-lawmaker-and-seek-re-election-amid-donation-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=3347","title":{"rendered":"Reform UK\u2019s Farage says he\u2019ll quit as lawmaker and seek re-election amid donation allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><p><strong>LONDON<\/strong> | Reform UK leader Nigel Farage announced Tuesday that he will quit his Parliament seat and seek re-election in an effort to clear his name over financial allegations linked to millions of dollars\u2019 worth of donations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have done nothing wrong. I have not broken the law in any way at all. I have not misused public money,\u201d Farage, a prominent ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, said in a broadcast statement that did not take questions.<\/p>\n<p>Farage faces questions about undeclared gifts, and a probe by Parliament\u2019s standards watchdog, over a 5 million pound ($6.7 million) gift he received from a Thailand-based cryptocurrency billionaire. Opposition lawmakers seek another investigation over donations from George Cottrell, an aristocratic crypto-gambling entrepreneur who served a prison sentence for fraud in the U.S.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The probes could have led to Farage being suspended or expelled from Parliament. He will pre-empt that process by triggering an election for his Clacton seat in eastern England.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people of Clacton should be the judges of my actions,\u201d he said. \u201cThis will be a people versus the establishment by-election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will fight to win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even if Farage wins, the standards inquiry is likely to resume.<\/p>\n<p>Scrutiny of Farage\u2019s finances had spurred speculation about the future of a politician some considered a favorite to be prime minister after the next national election.<\/p>\n<p>Farage\u2019s anti-immigration party has only eight of the 650 lawmakers in the House of Commons but consistently leads opinion polls over the governing Labour Party and the main opposition Conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>Reform UK was the big winner in local and regional elections in May that led to the ouster of Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the hands of his own Labour Party.<\/p>\n<p>But the party has lost three consecutive special elections that it hoped to win, a possible sign its support may be sagging. The most recent loss was to Labour\u2019s Andy Burnham, who is likely to succeed Starmer as prime minister within weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Losing Farage would be a serious blow to a party whose rise has echoes of Trump\u2019s nationalist, anti-immigration playbook. Farage has capitalized on \u2014 critics say stoked \u2014 concerns about migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats, which he has called an invasion.<\/p>\n<p>Parliamentary standards commissioner Daniel Greenberg is investigating the 5 million pound donation to Farage from Christopher Harborne, a British businessman based in Thailand. Farage says the money was a personal gift that he used to fund security and came before he was elected to the House of Commons.<\/p>\n<p>U.K. rules state that newly elected lawmakers must declare gifts worth more than 300 pounds ($400) they received in the previous 12 months, except where the gift \u201ccould not be reasonably thought by others\u201d to relate to their political activities.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=3341\">Jonathan Anderson shifts Dior buzz from Taylor Swift\u2019s hidden wedding gown to sculptural couture<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=3343\">Aurora Public Schools official gets national shout out for combating childhood hunger<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=3345\">Judge dismisses Prince Harry\u2019s privacy invasion lawsuit against publisher of Daily Mail<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON | Reform UK leader Nigel Farage announced Tuesday that he will quit his Parliament seat and seek re-election in an effort to clear his name over financial allegations linked to millions of dollars\u2019 worth of donations. \u201cI have done nothing wrong. 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