Mathew Shephard

[Brexitshambles @brexit_sham]

In a tax saving manoeuvre, Farage is paying himself £50,000 in rent for a studio space at one of his own properties. If the rental payment was 1p more a year, it would breach the threshold requiring a declaration to the register of members’ interests.
https://t.co/UcQ07pUyas

[Dr Nafeez Ahmed @NafeezAhmed]

1/🧵EXCLUSIVE: @BylineTimes's six-month investigation into Reform UK's policy chief: a secret donation from Peter Thiel, Thiel's life-changing offers to Cambridge scholars, and a far-right, theocratic student recruitment drive in breach of safeguarding
https://t.co/a6rMg1FR7T

[THE NERVE @thenerve_news]

“At one stage I even flew to Australia to get him to answer my questions”

Nerve co-founder @carolecadwalla on her loooooong decade investigating Nigel Farage

*including first raising questions about George Cottrell in 2018 🤔

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

And @BenQuinn75’s brilliant interview with the man/ intergalactic space traveller of the moment - Count Binface

“I didn’t know old Nigel Farage was going to self detonate… did I?”

https://t.co/c2Il8imuzO

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Tice threatened to injunct the Guardian then fed the story to a pet publication.

Pretty funny that his girlfriend Isabel Oakeshott did same thing in 2018 on Banks & the Russian emails. Only the pet publication was the Sunday Times. Enjoy the irony in that one.

[The News Agents @TheNewsAgents]

"For the first time, you've been hearing internal murmurings from Reform, going, 'Well, maybe Nigel is a bit of a problem' or 'maybe Nigel isn't the right man to take us into the election'."

Could Farage's by-election gamble cost him everything?

@lewis_goodall

[Anna Isaac @Annaisaac]

Exclusive: More Reform UK transactions worth millions reported to National Crime Agency

https://t.co/QpVhwFYgUg

[Jon Sopel @jonsopel]

People versus the establishment?
Are you kidding?
Nigel Farage is the son of a stockbroker who went to Dulwich College and then follows his dad into the city, gets gifted millions, promotes crypto and gold bullion, been in politics for decades - he IS the establishment

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

EXCL: The £5m gift to Nigel Farage by a cryptocurrency billionaire was reported to the National Crime Agency by bankers who were concerned it may have been laundered money - another big scoop by our @Annaisaac

https://t.co/hg41X5dwpr

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

The Spectator gave George Cottrell a platform to publish completely evidence-less claims. And is now doubling down on the bullshit.

Oh & now I’m in league with someone who’s either a spy or a crack Labour black ops team. One or the other.

[Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot]

NEW - Farage's standards investigation can continue if he is re-elected as MP for Clacton after the by-election.

Here's the rule:

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

Time and again, when Nigel Farage’s political funding is put under the spotlight, his response has been to claim that dark forces are at work to prevent him getting to the top of politics – rather than acknowledging that his approach to declaring donations and interests has been cavalier at best...

Farage claims that “no one cares” – particularly not Reform voters, who are simply fed up with the status quo. However, some others in Reform are not so sure, with worries that their leader may be losing his ability to shrug off scandal in the same way that Boris Johnson began to lose his lustre after the Partygate furore.

Regardless of whether rules have actually been breached, the impression that Farage is a man of the people who can sympathise with the cost of living struggles of millions is undermined by his willingness to let others pay his bills.

On point analysis by @rowenamason

https://t.co/ACHAE1riLd

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

You want to know who else has qs to answer? The @spectator. It ran interference for Cottrell when a Twitter account appeared posting material now in Sun Times report.

The Spectator twisted it as 'Labour dirty tricks' with zero evidence. And Cottrell hired Carter Ruck.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Bravo to the @Gabriel_Pogrund & team. This is the story in plain sight that needed to be nailed. Congrats are in order for getting it over a difficult line.

George Cottrell has operated with impunity at highest levels of UK politics for more than a decade
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[Gabriel Pogrund @Gabriel_Pogrund]

EXCLUSIVE

Nigel Farage failed to declare that a criminal and crypto gambler paid for his staff, security, drivers, social media output in year before election

Reform leader has also received free accommodation in Westminster from George Cottrell as MP
https://t.co/fSKszEDnV1

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

1) It’s *literally* your job to regulate this platform.

2) If you can’t, what does that mean? Tell us.

3) The Dept of Culture is not ‘your’ department, it’s ours. You’re its temporary custodian

5) But Facebook is ok? Really?

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

NEW: Boris Johnson failed to declare to parliament a gift of private jet flights from the same cryptobillionaire, Christopher Harborne who gave £5m to Nigel Farage, leaked documents reveal.

New #HarborneReceipts investigation from @thenerve_news
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[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

You have to ask yourself why MSM isn’t reporting this… indeed imply the opposite. … I don’t like being played…

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

This is AFD’s Maximilian Krah who met Labour’s Lord Glasman last week with Oleh Voloshyn - the Kremlin agent who bribed Nathan Gill - & his wife Nadia Sass.

Cd a lobby journalist pls ask @keirstarmer about UK govt’s refusal to investigate Russian interference in UK politics?

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

A) This a properly brilliant piece of investigative journalism by BBC & @hopenothate. Huge kudos to all involved.

B) The Kremlin operative who BBC names as directing arson attacks against Keir Starmer was taught his tradecraft by…drumroll…Sergei Nalobin !!! Pictured here with Boris Johnson. Also: the star of our podcast series, Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring! Wtaf