Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of UK politics. The Reform UK party leader, Nigel Farage, is scheduled to appear on Laura Kuenssberg’s Sunday politics programme at 9am, where he will likely be asked more about an undercover investigation broadcast by Channel 4 News which showed two of his senior aides appearing to plot to get around electoral laws on foreign donations. Accepting donations from a foreign company, including donations in kind such as polling, could constitute a criminal offence and the party has been reported to the police.
Senior aide Dan Jukes and Reform’s head of policy James Orr have both stood down pending the outcome of an internal party investigation. As my colleagues note in the story, Farage himself remains under pressure over a separate clip in which he was heard saying “it’s all above board” after one of the reporters who was posing as the UK-based son of a wealthy US backer told the Reform leader he had been in discussions with Jukes and Orr for some time. Farage has framed the investigation, carried out by Verbatim Investigations, which was founded by journalists from the Centre for Climate Reporting, as another example of an establishment stitch up, and has denied any wrongdoing, as have Orr and Jukes.
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