Verified
Verified 2026-07-11 · 3 sources
Harborne £5m personal gift
Christopher Harborne made a £5m personal payment to Nigel Farage in 2024. Both men acknowledge the payment.
Clacton by-election · follow the money
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Evidence files
17
Sources in vault
18
Under review
1
Updated
2026-07-11
Evidence first. Clacton always.
Start with the big questions.
No rumours. No personality contest. Just the public record.
Live file
Where did the £5m come from?
Who paid, what was declared — and what wasn’t?
7 sourced entries · updated 2026-07-11 →
Live file
Access & influence
Complaints, inquiries and denials — kept clearly separate.
1 under active review →
File open
What changed for Clacton?
How present is the MP in Westminster and in Clacton?
File open — no verified entries yet →
Latest verified developments
2026-07-10
By-election set for 13 August 2026
VerifiedView file →2026-07-08
Seat vacated; major parties decline
VerifiedView file →2026-07-07
SAR reporting; Farage resigns
VerifiedView file →2026-07-05
Separate Cottrell benefits allegation
AllegedView file →2026-05-13
Standards inquiry opens
Under reviewView file →2026-04-29
£5m gift becomes public
Officially reportedView file →
Who gets a seat
Money leaves a trail. Influence rarely arrives wearing a name badge — so we log what is declared, connected and documented, and we say plainly what each record does and does not prove.
Officially reported
Verified 2026-07-11 · 2 sources
Harborne £25k registered donations (reported)
Reporting cites registered Harborne donations of £25,000 in January 2025 and £25,000 in February 2026.
How a money trail is traced — method, not a verdict on any person
- Donor or organisation
- Access
- Meeting or event
- Policy relevance
- Source
Every step must carry a named, dated source before it appears in the ledger.
Clacton, not just Westminster
What changed for Clacton?
This is a national money story, but the vote is local. No invented local statistics — just the resignation, the vacancy, and who is and isn't standing.
Open the full record →Verified
Verified 2026-07-11 · 3 sources
Resignation and Clacton by-election
Farage announced resignation as Clacton MP on 7 July 2026, vacated via Manor of Northstead on 8 July, and Tendring District Council set polling day for 13 August 2026.
Officially reported
Verified 2026-07-11 · 2 sources
Labour and Conservatives decline to stand
Labour and the Conservatives said they would not field candidates in the Clacton by-election; the Green Party separately said it had no intention of contesting.
Closed doors. Open questions.
Public decisions should survive public scrutiny. Three questions, answered only from the record — with the gaps admitted.
Who had access?
The record shows one acknowledged £5m personal gift and two registered £25,000 donations from Christopher Harborne to Nigel Farage. Verified Officially reported What further access, if any, accompanied them is not established by the sources reviewed. Open the file →
What was discussed?
A complaint asks whether lobbying of the Bank of England on digital-currency policy breached paid-advocacy rules — a complaint, not a finding. Alleged Farage denies all wrongdoing. Denied Open the file →
What was disclosed?
The £5m did not appear in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests when the story broke Officially reported; a standards inquiry into registration is open Under review — an inquiry is not a finding of guilt. Open the file →
Britain is not
Public assets on the block. Foreign flags in the wings. The NHS treated like a lot number — satire on the picture, sourced files in the tabs below.
LOT 4
NHS
No reserve · foreign bids welcome?
LOT 5
Water & rail
Public pipes · private profits
LOT 6
Local services
Clacton on the catalogue
Illustration satiricalThe picture is fiction. The files below hold only what can be sourced.
File open — no verified entries yetNHS
No verified Clacton-specific file yet on NHS ownership or operating changes. When sourced records land — contracts, official statistics, tribunal or NAO documents — this drawer opens with dates and links.
Ledger total
£5,050,000
Acknowledged personal gift plus registered donations from Christopher Harborne recorded in this ledger.
See every row →The interest file, as it stands.
Behind every political promise is a cost, a beneficiary and a public consequence. Public office is not a private dining club.
£1.4m Surrey house cash purchase (reported)
Land Registry documents reported by Sky News (via Channel 4 FactCheck) show Farage completed a £1.4m Surrey purchase with no mortgage on 10 May 2024.
Officially reported2026-07-11£5m not in Register of Members’ Financial Interests
The £5m personal gift did not appear in Farage’s Register of Members’ Financial Interests entry as reported when the story broke.
Officially reported2026-07-11Standards Commissioner Rule 5 inquiry
On 13 May 2026 the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards opened a formal inquiry under Rule 5 (failure to register an interest) concerning the £5m.
Under review2026-07-11January 2026 late-registration rectification
A separate, closed standards matter: seventeen interests registered late (nearly £400,000), resolved by rectification in January 2026; Farage apologised.
Resolved2026-07-11Undeclared Cottrell benefits allegation
The Sunday Times (via Al Jazeera) reported that Farage failed to declare benefits around the 2024 campaign paid for by George Cottrell.
Alleged2026-07-11
No item above states or implies criminal conduct. Statuses change only with the record.
No source = no claim.
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