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Farage senior aide filmed suggesting way to avoid donations law
Watch: Undercover reporters posing as party donors meet with Nigel Farage
Nigel Farage's senior aide suggested a way to get around electoral law to secure a foreign donation of £500,000 for Reform UK, according to undercover filming broadcast by Channel 4.
Dan Jukes was filmed meeting a man posing as the British-based son of a rich American businessman.
Electoral law sets out that to be a permissible donor to a UK political party you must be a UK registered voter, or a company registered in the UK.
In this instance, the son would be a permissible donor, his father would not be.
The undercover filming was done by a group called Verbatim Investigations, which was founded by journalists from the Centre for Climate Reporting. Channel 4 News say they have verified the material they were given and chose to broadcast.
Reform UK denies any wrongdoing and claims to have "been the target of a hoax perpetuated by foreign funded climate change activists".
The reporter posing as the son of the American donor is filmed raising a concern that his father wouldn't be able to directly donate to the party within the law.
Filmed standing outside a pub in Westminster, Jukes said "you do realise that you can do it?"
Channel 4 say Jukes was suggesting that the donation could be in the UK-based son's name, although the money would have come from his American father.