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Nigel Farage declared £270,000 from gold bullion dealer Direct Bullion for just 12 hours of work — £22,500 an hour, double what the same company paid him 9 months earlier. The self-styled man of the people is now by some distance Parliament's highest-paid outside earner.
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The episode opens with a punchy scene-setter from Alastair Campbell: Nigel Farage has just declared his biggest single payment as an MP, £270,000 for 12 hours of work, doubling his rate from the same company just 9 months earlier. This is the same politician who built his career on being the voice of left-behind Britons, now one of the wealthiest politicians in British history [1] — Alastair Campbell "£270,000 for 12 hours of work: Farage declared £270,000 from bullion dealer Direct Bullion for 12 hours of work, equating to £22,500 per ho…" . The question that hangs over the whole episode is posed immediately: how did a party supposedly for the ordinary working man end up attracting some of the richest donors in the world, and what do those donors expect in return? A Fuse Energy sponsorship read — advertising tariffs up to £200 below the Ofgem price cap — follows the cold open.
Farage declared £270,000 from bullion dealer Direct Bullion for 12 hours of work, equating to £22,500 per hour.
Direct Bullion's payment to Farage was double what the same company paid him just 9 months earlier.
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