Anna Isaac

It's very technical.

They're meant to focus on things that could politically influence you.

So they're meant to be about sort of party political activity or other political activity.

So it is correct to state that if a gift is entirely personal, then it can be treated as private and you don't need to declare it.

But

The way the rules are written is it does say that, you know, that can be quite a complicated decision for an MP to make.

So it's also about sort of the perception it's suggesting in the rules.

It's saying, you know, you have to be really clear that there could be no suggestion associated with it, that it might be more than just a gift.

um so that's that's that's very important is i'm just going to read from it a bit i know it's a bit tedious but it's really important this wording um both the possible motive of the giver and the use to which the gift is to be put should be considered if there is any doubt the gift should be registered so

That's the bar we're talking about now in the context of this five million gift, because we know that the Conservative Party has referred it to the parliamentary watchdog.

So I think it will be really interesting to see whether or not that meets that bar of it being a private, purely personal gift that Suella Braverman has mentioned.

I'd put that probably slightly more in the statement category rather than question.

But I think it's certainly very interesting to see a politician who has built his career on being an extraordinarily effective campaigner and building what he has often described as grassroots campaigns.

I think it's very interesting in that context.

And when you look at the evolution from the Brexit party through to Reform UK, that such a high level of dependency, as it were, should come from

from one should be on one source on one source of of donation that it is that the sums are so large from one individual i think that's um i think that's certainly very uh a very interesting development in terms of how that party has evolved um um

I think Nigel Farage is clearly often been someone that cuts through to the communities you describe.

I do wonder, you know, whether or not the sort of the news in detail day by day is something that will also cut through to those communities.