UK’s Nigel Farage to quit as lawmaker, seeks re-election to clear name

AP Associated PressSouth China Morning PostFiled 2026-07-07 · 13:54 GMTLean · Center-RightRead · 1 min

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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage announced he will resign as a lawmaker and seek re-election to address financial allegations. Farage stated he has done nothing wrong and has not broken the law or misused public money. He is currently under investigation by parliament's standards watchdog regarding a £5 million gift from a cryptocurrency billionaire. Opposition lawmakers are also calling for another probe into donations from George Cottrell, an entrepreneur previously convicted of fraud. Farage made his statement in a broadcast without taking questions.

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Opposition lawmakers seek another investigation over donations from George Cottrell.

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Farage faces a probe by parliament’s standards watchdog over a £5 million gift from a cryptocurrency billionaire.

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Farage states he has done nothing wrong, broken no laws, and misused no public money.

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Nigel Farage will quit as a lawmaker and seek re-election.

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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says he will quit as a lawmaker and seek re-election to clear his name over financial allegations linked to millions of dollars’ worth of donations.“I have done nothing wrong. I have not broken the law in any way at all. I have not misused public money,” Farage, a prominent ally of US President Donald Trump, said in a broadcast statement that did not take questions.Farage faces a probe by parliament’s standards watchdog over a £5 million (US$6.7 million) gift from a Thailand-based cryptocurrency billionaire. Opposition lawmakers are seeking another investigation over donations from George Cottrell, an aristocratic crypto-gambling entrepreneur who served a prison sentence for fraud in the US.

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