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🔺 EXCLUSIVE: After a torrid period Nigel Farage, the Reform leader, is “back on the road” — visibly more relaxed than in recent months and declaring the party’s general election campaign “starts today” after, he jokes, having been “put in a dungeon”. (“No, I haven’t,” he adds.)⁠
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He makes no attempt to conceal the challenges of this period, during which he has contended with a parliamentary inquiry into an £5m undeclared gift from the crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne, scrutiny over support from convicted fraudster George Cottrell that was revealed by The Sunday Times, undercover footage of two senior aides appearing to discuss ways around election laws on foreign donations — which prompted their suspension — and a Metropolitan Police investigation into allegations the party broke foreign funding laws. He strongly denies any wrongdoing.⁠
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🗣️ “The narrative that Reform has peaked? No, it’s troughed. It’s a very different thing, it’s troughed.”⁠
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📸 SUNDAY TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER JAMES GLOSSOP⁠
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