Podbit · The Rest Is Politics
People who worked on the Partygate inquiry believe Farage has broken the code of conduct, and that the size of the £5 million sum is large enough that any recommended suspension could trigger a by-election. Whether that changes anything in Clacton is another question entirely.
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When Farage finally surfaced to face questions about the £5 million, he was visibly brittle: repeating 'nobody cares' and insisting it was his money to spend as he liked [1] — Cat Neilan "It's nobody's business. It's nobody's business what I spend it on. I can spend it on cars if I want to. I don't even have to spend it on se…" 07:15 . Cat reports that people working inside Reform are privately worried about his thin-skinned reactions, particularly his combative responses to female journalists — a pattern that prompted at least one Reform MP to privately apologise to a journalist on Farage's behalf. Alastair connects this directly to the Trump playbook: deny, deflect, repeat 'nobody cares' until the story dies. Trump, Alastair notes, has literally said on the record that he could be more corrupt in a second term because nobody punished him in the first. The question both hosts are circling: will that strategy work here, or does the British public have a different threshold?
Multiple people involved in previous parliamentary standards inquiries believe Farage has fallen foul of the code of conduct by not declaring the £5 million.
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