Peter Walker

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987 appearances 10 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 21 Sep

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Today in Focus · Farage under pressure over gifts from convicted fraudster – The Latest · 6 Jul 2026 podcast

He's made quite a lot of money through gambling.

He lived in Montenegro for a period where he kind of gambled a lot there.

He's got a conviction in the US for wire fraud, which he admitted to.

He served a small jail sentence there.

And he's one of these slightly shadowy figures, but he's not very well known.

People might spot him in the background of a lot of pictures of Nigel Farage over the years.

But they're extraordinarily close.

There is a story, no one's ever confirmed this to me firsthand, that he calls Farage daddy, which is slightly unusual.

I was like, this is not my way and I have to say.

But he's very much part of the inner circle.

But he's got this unofficial role.

The Times this morning printed a photograph of a Reform UK business card that Cotterill uses.

But the party says he's an unpaid aide.

Yeah, he's kind of like, he was always known as a bit of a kind of bag carrier as much as anything else.

But now it seems he's also been giving quite a lot to Nigel Farage in a direct way, whether in terms of money, but also in terms of these like services, like somewhere to stay in security and all that stuff.

So he's quite a central figure.

They've basically said there is nothing to see here and investigation is completely pointless.

Their argument is that the rules only specify you have to declare relevant gifts and because these were just purely mates, there's nothing to it.

It remains to be seen what the Standards Commissioner, Daniel Greenberg, has to say.

My suspicion is he'll take a slightly dim view of it because anyone being given £5 million...

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