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Farage sacks aides over Channel 4 sting funding talk

9/6/2026

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Nigel Farage dismissed aide Dan Jukes and policy chief James Orr after a Channel 4 News sting.
The sting footage showed Jukes and Orr discussing a source funding £32,500 and an unpaid £500,000 donation.
Reform UK called the alleged foreign-funded scheme a hoax by climate-change activists.
Commissioner Daniel Greenberg’s probe of Farage’s £5 million Christopher Harborne gift paused after his resignation, when he won by-election with 63.3%.

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Nigel Farage dismissed aide Dan Jukes and policy chief James Orr after a Channel 4 News sting.
The sting footage showed Jukes and Orr discussing a source funding £32,500 and an unpaid £500,000 donation.
Reform UK called the alleged foreign-funded scheme a hoax by climate-change activists.
Commissioner Daniel Greenberg’s probe of Farage’s £5 million Christopher Harborne gift paused after his resignation, when he won by-election with 63.3%.