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Sally Nugent just did something almost nobody in British broadcast media has managed. She actually pressed Farage on the £5m from Christopher Harborne, and didn't let him wriggle off it. His answers shifted as they went. It was for security. Then it was for cars. Then it was nobody's business. Then he questioned why it mattered at all. When Nugent kept pushing on how much he'd actually spent, he accused the BBC of putting him in danger by asking. At one point he tried turning it back on her, asking what she does with her own salary. She didn't blink. "My salary is on the public record." His isn't, not the £5m anyway. Then the line that mattered. He let slip that the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards "may disagree" with him on the donation rules. That's not a denial. That's a man who knows which way this is going. Farage has prior form here. The Commissioner already found he breached the rules once, failing to register 17 payments worth around £384,000 within the required 28 days. No action was taken that time, it was called an error. A second breach, on a £5m personal gift, is a different category of problem. Three minutes and forty five seconds of someone actually doing the job. Worth the watch.