Andy Burnham was just starting to face awkward questions about his plans as Britain’s prime minster last week. Instead, his biggest rival, Nigel Farage, ended up being the one under greater pressure to explain. Footage aired by a British television network on Thursday night showed the Reform UK leader and two of his most senior aides discussing with an undercover journalist how to avoid campaign finance laws to get foreign money into the right-wing populist party’s coffers.
The bombshell report broadcast by Channel 4 rekindled concerns about Reform’s formidable fundraising operation and threw into chaos Farage’s efforts to mount a political counterattack against Burnham’s reinvigorated Labour Party. Within hours, Farage was publicly parting ways with the two aides, including Dan Jukes, an adviser so close that some Reform insiders have likened him to the leader’s adopted son. The Reform leader ended up using his annual conference — an event intended to showcase political strength — to insist he has done nothing wrong and chide aides for engaging in “loose pub talk” and behavior that was “injudicious at best.”
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