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Personal gifts and reported donation rows from the ledger. The £5m Harborne payment is a personal gift — not counted as a party donation. Party-donation totals on the homepage sum only seeded is_party_donation rows.

Showing 3 · sum £5,050,000

Donation and personal gift rows from the ledger
DateDonorAmountNatureStatusEvidence
2024-04-05Christopher Harborne→ Nigel Farage (personal)£5,000,000Personal gift (not a registered party donation)Not a party donationVerified
2025-01-01Christopher Harborne→ Reform UK / Farage (registered donation, as reported)£25,000Registered donation (reported)Officially reported
2026-02-01Christopher Harborne→ Reform UK / Farage (registered donation, as reported)£25,000Registered donation (reported)Officially reported
VerifiedFile fact-harborne-5m-gift

Harborne £5m personal gift

Christopher Harborne made a £5m personal payment to Nigel Farage in 2024. Both men acknowledge the payment.

★ Proves
That an acknowledged personal gift of £5m existed, separate from party donation filings.
✕ Does not prove
Criminal wrongdoing, money laundering, or that Commons registration rules were breached (that is the live standards question).
Response — Nigel Farage

“Described successively as for personal security, as a Brexit campaigning reward, and as an unconditional gift given before he was an MP.”

Last verified 2026-07-11 · The Guardian

Officially reportedFile fact-sar-filed

Suspicious Activity Report filed (reported)

Bankers handling the £5m transfers filed a Suspicious Activity Report with the National Crime Agency in May 2024, according to Guardian reporting published in July 2026.

★ Proves
That a compliance SAR was reported to have been filed.
✕ Does not prove
Money laundering, criminal guilt, or that the NCA opened an investigation into Farage. An SAR is a bank compliance flag, not a finding.
Response — Nigel Farage

“Said he had not known a SAR was submitted, had no reason to doubt the source of the money, said the information was illegally obtained, and rejected any suggestion of impropriety.”

Last verified 2026-07-11 · The Guardian

Officially reportedFile fact-surrey-house

£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.

★ Proves
That a cash property purchase was reported from Land Registry material.
✕ Does not prove
That Harborne gift money paid for the house. Reform UK said the purchase proceeded independently and cited I’m a Celebrity fees.
Response — Reform UK

“Said the purchase was already proceeding independently of the gift; separately linked funding to a reported seven-figure I’m a Celebrity fee.”

Last verified 2026-07-11 · Channel 4 News FactCheck