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LONDON (AP) \u2014 Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says he\u2019ll quit as a lawmaker and seek re-election to clear his name over financial allegations.<\/p>\nLONDON (AP) \u2014 Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says he\u2019ll quit as a lawmaker and seek re-election to clear his name over financial allegations.<\/p>\n
Farage said Tuesday he will resign from his seat in Parliament, triggering a special election in which he will run. He said in a broadcast statement that \u201cI have done nothing wrong. I have not broken the law in any way at all. I have not misused public money.\u201d<\/p>\n
Farage is facing a probe by Parliament\u2019s standards watchdog over a 5 million pound ($6.7 million) gift from a Thailand-based cryptocurrency billionaire. Opposition lawmakers are seeking 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
No independent journalists were invited to film the announcement or ask questions.<\/p>\n
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP\u2019s earlier story follows below.<\/p>\n
LONDON (AP) \u2014 Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says he will make a statement about his future on Tuesday as he faces questions over financial donations from a cryptocurrency billionaire and a convicted fraudster.<\/p>\n
Farage, a prominent British ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, posted on X that \u201cI will make a statement on my future in public life at 2 p.m.” He gave no other details.<\/p>\n
Farage is facing a probe by Parliament\u2019s standards watchdog over a 5 million pound ($6.7 million) gift from a Thailand-based cryptocurrency billionaire. Opposition lawmakers are seeking 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
Farage denies wrongdoing. But the scrutiny of his finances has spurred speculation about the future of a politician some considered the favorite to be prime minister after the next national election.<\/p>\n
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
Reform UK was the big winner in local and regional elections in May that triggered the ouster of Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the hands of his own Labour Party.<\/p>\n
But Farage’s 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
Parliamentary standards commissioner Daniel Greenberg is investigating the 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
If Farage is found to have breached the rules, he could be suspended from Parliament. A suspension of 10 days or more would allow voters in his Clacton constituency in eastern England to trigger a special election for the seat.<\/p>\n
It 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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