Tom Burgess

And what about Farage himself?

What did he say when you went to him?

Don't do his accent.

And, you know, listening to all of this, it does strike me as being a bit rum that a guy who's living in Thailand is allowed to give such huge donations to British political parties when he's not paying most of his taxes.

Yeah, going in the American direction.

And you've told us already that somebody who knows Harbourn says that he aspires to become the king of crypto.

Yeah.

So he seems to be operating primarily out of self-interest rather than ingrained political ideology, allegiance to one political party or the other.

And I just wondered, do you think this could all end in tears for Nigel Farage?

And lastly, Tom, you said that around two thirds of reforms donations have come from Harbourn.

How risky is that for Farage to rely so heavily on one mega donor?

Tom, always a pleasure.

Thanks for coming in.

That was Tom Burgess.

You can read his magazine piece about Chris Harbourne at theguardian.com.

And that is all for today.

This episode was produced by Alex Atack and presented by me, Helen Pidd.

Sound design was by Rudy Zagadlo.

The executive producer was Khuma Khalili.

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