{"id":821,"date":"2026-05-13T12:39:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=821"},"modified":"2026-05-13T12:39:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:39:38","slug":"nigel-farage-faces-inquiry-over-5m-gift-from-crypto-billionaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=821","title":{"rendered":"Nigel Farage faces inquiry over \u00a35m gift from crypto billionaire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watchdog to examine whether Reform UK leader should have declared donation received before entering parliament<\/p>\n<p>Nigel Farage is facing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2026\/may\/10\/farage-trying-to-avoid-scrutiny-over-5m-gift-from-crypto-billionaire-labour-says\">formal investigation<\/a> by the parliamentary standards watchdog over a \u00a35m gift from the crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne.<\/p>\n<p>The Reform UK leader received the money weeks before announcing he would stand as a candidate in the 2024 general election.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2026\/may\/13\/nigel-farage-inquiry-gift-crypto-billionaire-reform-uk-christopher-harborne\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watchdog to examine whether Reform UK leader should have declared donation received before entering parliament Nigel Farage is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}