Tom Burgess

So he's fabulously wealthy, fabulously secretive.

Why does he start deciding to funnel what for him is actually a tiny, tiny proportion of his wealth into British political parties when he doesn't even live in the UK anymore?

And what's his interest in Farage?

Yeah.

Yeah, we hadn't yet left.

Okay, and you've spoken to people who were close to Farage and who were there in 2019.

What did they tell you about the level of Harbourn's involvement?

Gawain Towler, right.

Yes, I know this guy.

Yeah, dresses like an English country gent.

Head to toe in tweed, doesn't he?

Always smoking a fag.

Okay, so he's in the UK?

OK, so we can certainly say that Chris Harbourne wanted to get Brexit done.

No, and the weird thing, I thought from reading your piece, is that the Brexit Party wasn't the only party that he was donating to in those Boris Johnson years, right?

After the 2019 general election.

COVID, I guess, isn't it?

And in your magazine piece, there are some previously unpublished pictures of Farage attending Chris Harbourne's 60th birthday party back in December 2022.

Is that right?

When Farage had supposedly taken a step away from frontline politics and the party is at the Thai wellness resort that Harbourne owns, where he prefers to be known as Chakrit and not Chris.