Undercover report on donations ‘looks bad’ for Reform, admits Nigel Farage – UK politics live

The Reform UK leader is under pressure after senior aides appeared to plot how to bypass electoral laws on foreign donations The business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, went on to condemn the hundreds of masked protesters who prevented traffic from coming in and out of the port of Dover yesterday. In the interview with the BBC, he praised the police for effectively dealing with the “intimidatory behaviour” and said he had sympathy for the “people around Dover” and those disrupted by the delays. A group called Patriot Platform, which styles itself as having “a fierce love for our homeland”, claimed responsibility for the blockade, as my colleagues note in this story. Continue reading...