Anna Isaac

He cited...

in his interview with The Telegraph, an attempt to firebomb his home that actually happened quite some time after the gift was made.

So we know it was weeks before he announced he was going to stand as an MP.

He made that announcement in June 2024.

The firebombing incident he described actually happened in 2025.

So there is a gap there.

But he has said that there are sort of ongoing security concerns throughout this period.

And they've been very emphatic that the gift and his decision to stand are unrelated.

but I think it still raises a lot of questions about maybe the limits on the declaration systems that we have.

The big question is,

Now, it's been referred to, sorry to use jargon, but the parliamentary watchdog for standards, shall we say.

You know, it's been referred to them by the Conservative Party to say, you know, should this have been declared as a donation or even as a gift?

Because there are some rules governing MPs that even when someone gives them money,

If there's any reason to believe that it might be used in any way for political purposes, then it ought to be declared.

So there isn't sort of a question now as to whether or not what will happen with that referral and whether or not there's a judgment will be made that perhaps it ought to have been declared.

We approached them well ahead of publication, as you would expect, to give people a fair chance to reply.

We lay it out a little in our story, but Reform UK didn't respond with any comment at all.

We approached their director of communications and there was no response.

And then they came back 24 hours later and they said,

Oh, actually, you contacted the wrong person.