Peter Walker

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

Farage's idea of being a man of the people has always been slightly fictional, you know, given we know he's a public school educated former metals trader.

But I think the £5 million is, as some people understand, it's the sort of stuff they could never accrue most people in their lifetime.

And the idea of being given it as a no-strings-attached gift just smells a bit odd.

In the more kind of everyday sense, if the Standards Commissioner looks into this and then the Standards Committee decides to approve the punishment, if the punishment is a suspension of more than 10 days,

then he faces this process where if at least 10% of his Clacton constituents sign a petition, then it could be a by-election.

I mean, I think the chances are he'd probably win, but this would be the sort of fuss he really doesn't need.

I think whilst he would probably win a by-election just because the opposition vote would be split, I think the reputational damage is shown by the fact that he used to do press conferences on a more or less weekly basis.

And apart from a very hastily arranged one in Makerfield, he's not done one for about 50 days yet.

His lieutenants, like Jenrick, get sent out.

Nigel Farage did a brief broadcast round about a week ago, which went incredibly badly wrong.

He just got very grumpy with everyone, was asked about the £5 million.

He came across very badly.

So I think they realise it's starting to cut across.

And the problem for Reform UK is that Farage is the party.

When they were being run by Richard Tice, when Tice was the leader...

they were hobbling along in about 6% of the polls.

I mean, as they keep on pointing out, they've now led for more than 300 consecutive polls.

They're doing something right.

But it could easily drop away again.

And I think, you know, I get the sense there's people in reform who are very, very worried about this.

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