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Chris Harborne

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

We've got a legal letter that comes from an email address called legal at reform.

Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

Okay.

Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

Let me grab it.

Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

I've got a thickening pile of legal letters.

Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

Here's the reform one.

Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

So it's basically, yeah, this is just a party.

Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

Don't read too much into it.

Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

What it certainly isn't is some sort of like political strategy gathering where they're plotting Farage's takeover of the UK.

Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

They gather, they go to a birthday.

Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

200 people are there.

Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

It's just a birthday party.

Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

No political discussions of the nature implied took place and to suggest otherwise is a complete fabrication.

Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

I'll tell you what's also interesting about this, about the letter that comes back.

Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

It says, this is not a political meeting.

Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

Nigel Farage is not even contemplating a return to politics then.

Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

There's no way this could be about Farage's kind of designs to be prime minister because there aren't any.

Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

I'm not sure that's entirely the full picture, you know.

Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

Just before this trip to Thailand, Farage has written in the Daily Telegraph, just sort of mentioning offhand, by the way, the polling suggests that a Nigel Farage-led party could do very well.

Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

And he ends it by saying, basically, I've given my life to Brexit to sit on the sidelines while it's portrayed.

Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

So whether or not he has political discussions or discussions about donations in Thailand with Chris Harbour, he's clearly starting at this point to contemplate this big return.