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@SkyNews @AliFortescue Did he declare the money to the solicitor on where it came from for money laundering checks?
I know when i paid cash for my house, i had to show where the money came from.
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BREAKING: Nigel Farage bought a £1.4 million property in cash, shortly after receiving a £5m personal gift from billionaire donor Christopher Harborne, Sky News learns.
Sky's political correspondent @AliFortescue has this exclusive story ⬇️
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@KenKenph59 @PhilipRadbourne @MartinRemains House is in her name. Look up AML solicitors to see what they check for source of funds.
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@PhilipRadbourne @MartinRemains "Immune"?.....but as Farages partner, who has paid for his house? Do you feel any foreign gift should be"Immune" to investigation too?
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Now that the BBC is reporting Polanskis houseboat council tax and Angela Rayners tax errors , can we please have some balance and investigate Farages house purchase and £5 million "gift" for "security" #BBCBias
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@david_hollas @TrevorB21504757 The solicitors will have checked source of funds as part of the AML process.
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@TrevorB21504757 Someone should. Im pretty sure I couldn't just spend over 800 grand on a house no questions asked. Was the cash in a suitcase?
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Laure Ferrari has refused to confirm how she paid £885,000 cash for a house in Nigel Farage's constituency.
In an interview with Le Monde today, she said: "There's more than one way to pay for a house."
Here's what we know.
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Land Registry, Title EX38068.
Orchard House, Turpins Lane, Kirby Cross, Frinton-on-Sea CO13 0PB.
Registered solely to Laure Ferrari. Cash purchase. No mortgage. No charge of any kind.
Date: 11 November 2024. Four months after Farage was elected MP for Clacton.
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Farage originally told Sky News and LBC he had "bought a house in Clacton."
He later said he "misspoked."
Then he said she came from "a very successful French family and can afford it."
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BBC Verify investigated the family wealth claim in September 2025.
They found no evidence of substantial family wealth or property sales.
Her father's haulage business in Strasbourg was liquidated in 2020, with more debts than assets.
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Today Ferrari offered a new explanation to Le Monde.
"Yes and no, that would be a very large inheritance… There's more than one way to pay for a house."
"I can't say how much my grandmother gave, that's my business."
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So the explanation has now shifted from:
❌ "Farage bought it"
❌ "Very successful French family"
❌ "Grandmother's inheritance, but I can't say how much"
Each explanation raises more questions than it answers.
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What we do know: Had Farage been named as co-purchaser, the additional dwelling surcharge would have applied, he owns investment property through Thorn In The Side Ltd.
Estimated stamp duty saving by registering solely in Ferrari's name: ~£43,500.
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Last week Farage failed to declare a £5 million personal gift from crypto-billionaire Christopher Harborne upon entering Parliament.
This week his partner won't confirm how she funded an £885,000 cash house purchase.
The leader of a party that campaigned on transparency.
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@kevrgfc @DamianLow3 The solicitors will have checked source of funds as part of the AML procedure. Even if NF gave her the money (which he denies) source will have been checked. Lots of people give their partners money to buy property for themselves - it's not illegal
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@DamianLow3 Now we know about this money, did HE buy his Clacton house for cash?
In doing so, and putting it in his girlfriend’s name, has he DELIBERATELY avoided Stamp Duty?
It’s clear neither she nor her family could’ve paid cash for it.
Needs to be pushed.
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Still no mainstream media coverage of Farage’s £5 million ‘gift’.
Why would that be? Do Reform get a pass on potential corruption?
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You are paid to be in Parliament, Lee.
I know you’d much rather be filming Cameo videos than doing the job we pay you to do, but we do actually expect you to do your job.
Your boss wasn’t there for the abortion vote. He wasn’t there for the statement on child rape gangs. Why?
Lee Anderson MP@LeeAndersonMP_
I'll tell you where they are. Out campaigning to get rid you lot in elections that wouldn't have happened with @reformparty_uk dragging you all to court. Starmer's toast and you know it. Are you looking forward to May 7th?
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@ArchieHall Doesn't the windfall tax only apply to UK extracted oil/gas. The majority of BP profit is from trading.
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@DangerousGlobe @danielgoyal Nuffied Health is a charity not for profit.
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@danielgoyal The Privates are dedicated to creating value for shareholders, they are a businesses not Health Providers
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Yes, we are footing the bill for the 6000 private patients per year transferred to the NHS,
But there is a bigger issue:
The NHS can handle complexity, the private sector can’t
And the more we diminish the NHS the less complexity it can handle
mirror.co.uk/news/health/pr…
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@Embejce804 @afneil Didn't Robbins say that MI5 & MI6 raised no concerns?
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Starmer’s hesitant performance today left many important questions unanswered:
Why did he ignore the advice of his then cabinet secretary, Simon Case, in November 2024 to vet Mandelson before appointing? It would seem wise advice given Mandelson’s dodgy past/reputation.
Yet Starmer’s answer is evasive. He says Case’s successor, Chris Wormald concluded in a review in September 2025 that vetting after appointment is ‘normal/usual’.
But Starmer obviously didn’t have that review when he rejected Case, Wormald just says it was normal, not necessarily right — and since Wormald succeeded Case amid Mandelson’s appointment and went along with the Starmer timeline, he was hardly likely to contradict himself in a subsequent review.
So, again, why did Starmer reject Case’s sound advice? If he had accepted it he wouldn’t be in his current pickle /1
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@ann_mahss @daniellismore He owns around 1% of the shares - try grok or google
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The lack of media scrutiny on this grifter is staggering
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@Blibbledurble @Damocles561 @labourpress Rayner resigned from cabinet, is still an MP. Tice has no government post and is still an MP
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@Damocles561 @labourpress That's the whole point: Rayner stepped down. Will Tice? Seems unlikely given corruption is so normalised within Reform.
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Reform won’t say that Richard Tice’s companies paid the correct tax. Because they didn’t.
Why won’t they hold their deputy leader to the same standards they demand of others?
BBC Breakfast@BBCBreakfast
'Last year Richard Tice said Angela Rayner should resign if she had any moral decency after she'd underpaid stamp duty, should he also resign then by his own standards?' Zia Yusuf from Reform UK was questioned on #BBCBreakfast over reports the Deputy Leader Richard Tice had underpaid corporation tax bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cg…
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@donmcgowan Resign from what? He has no official post in government & rayner is still an MP
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The culmination of two solid years of Reform propaganda going unchallenged across our entire media ecosphere.
They can lie without any recourse.
Tice should resign. He knows that. We know that.
But they'll lie and lie and lie and by tomorrow it will be moved on.
Dan Neidle@DanNeidle
This is astonishing nonsense. Nobody has identified any errors in our report. Tice’s lawyer didn’t even comment. And Tice’s statement translates into English as “you’re right, but I want to talk about something else”.
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@merman1974 Elected MPs & Ministers are not vetted. Applies to civil servants. Ask grok
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Boris Johnson failed vetting, yet Theresa May appointed him Foreign Secretary.
Dominic Cummings was never vetted, yet had free access to Government and Number 10.
Quit trying to bring down Starmer.
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@DanNeidle Why do you think Tice has to explain his tax affairs to you & Pogrund? Is there an HMRC investigation - that's where hoe needs to expain things
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This is astonishing nonsense. Nobody has identified any errors in our report. Tice’s lawyer didn’t even comment.
And Tice’s statement translates into English as “you’re right, but I want to talk about something else”.
Gabriel Pogrund@Gabriel_Pogrund
Whoever said this to @CamillaTominey is either mistaken or deliberately misleading a respected journalist to deter further scrutiny — we have see no legal complaint from Tice and stand by our reporting.
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@Gabriel_Pogrund @CamillaTominey Hmm - Tice doesn't have to respond to you or anyone else apart from HMRC.
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Whoever said this to @CamillaTominey is either mistaken or deliberately misleading a respected journalist to deter further scrutiny — we have see no legal complaint from Tice and stand by our reporting.
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@david_hollas @UKLabour What is this 'public record'? Rayner is still an MP, she resigned from cabinet. Tice is not in cabinet & is still and MP
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Richard Tice says this is about "obscure technical issues."
Let's look at the public record.
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Quidnet REIT Ltd Tice's property company, listed on the Guernsey stock exchange did not pay the required 20% levy before channelling dividends to Tice and his Jersey-registered trust.
The Sunday Times puts the underpayment at £91,000.
Source: Sunday Times / Companies House
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That's not the whole picture.
The Sunday Times reports four shell companies controlled by Tice paid no tax on profits between 2020 and 2022. They were set up to receive dividends from Quidnet and pass money upward.
During the same period, Tisun Investments Ltd transferred £1,113,000 to Reform UK.
Source: Sunday Times / Companies House (05925324)
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Tisun Investments Ltd is registered at 24 Berkeley Square, London. Tice is declared as its owner on the Register of Members' Financial Interests.
It is also the vehicle through which he has directed over £2m in cash and loans into Reform UK.
Source: Parliament.uk / Companies House
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The question isn't whether tax avoidance is legal.
It's whether a party that campaigns on fiscal responsibility was substantially funded via shell companies that paid no tax on profits.
That's a question for the Electoral Commission, not just HMRC.
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Tice demanded Angela Rayner resign over an alleged £40,000 stamp duty discrepancy.
He called her "the biggest hypocrite in the land."
The public record is now asking him to apply the same standard to himself.
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NEW: Fresh questions for the deputy leader of Reform after investigation reveals he failed to pay almost £100,000 in tax, benefitting his investment firm…
…which then gave big donations to Reform UK.
This isn’t going away.
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@hughjbrown @GabbG73340 @ZoeJardiniere Have they had a bill from HMRC which they haven't paid? What Neidle & Pogrund say doesn't count as a bill
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@GabbG73340 @ZoeJardiniere Tice's companies still owe tax due. Not paying tax due is evasion.
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Richard Tice’s tax affairs are decidedly dodgy.
He & Farage have tried to railroad, gaslight & deny in response.
They’re not on our side. They are the ones who’ve been getting fat while our public services & high-streets fall to bits.
They blame immigration to distract us.
Gabriel Pogrund@Gabriel_Pogrund
Tice, who said Angela Rayner would resign if she had "any moral decency", did not respond to our latest inquiries about his tax affairs or even acknowledge receipt. Nor did his lawyer or Nigel Farage's team. However, he has now posted a statement saying of his wider affairs: "Naturally I am always happy to put things right and if numbers need rechecking, of course I will pay what is owed - be that more or less." Where does that leave us? - Story #1: Tice avoided £600k in corporation tax by classifying his company as a real estate investment trust in unusual circumstances and benefitting from a loophole meaning he did not have to meet technical rules that otherwise applied. Tice accepts this, and said everyone should seek to avoid as much tax as legally possible. - Story #2: Tice broke the law by failing to pay at least £92k - or, per further analysis by @DanNeidle, £120k - in withholding tax before paying incorrectly large dividends to himself and his off-shore trust in Jersey. He says the dividends he personally received meant he ultimately paid more income tax, meaning HMRC received the money it was owed, or even more. He has not provided any evidence for this or addressed what tax the trust paid. He has dismissed the fact the law was broken - and the accompanying fact that the company still has an unsettled tax bill - as a "technicality". Farage, when asked to evidence Tice's claim that HMRC received equal/more tax, snapped at a reporter and demanded she provide a "lecture" on the nature of real estate investment trusts. - Story #3: Tice failed to pay ~£100k in corporation tax on dividends deposited in four shell companies he owned and which were part of a group which donated huge sums to Reform. Last month he gave us contradictory stories as to why dividends were not taxed. a) He said they were tax-exempt. (They were not in this case.) b) He said the parent group suffered losses allowing tax bills to be offset. (This is not the case.) He did not respond to further inquiries which we sent yesterday morning. Overall, the evidence indicates Tice used unusual measures to avoid £600k, and failed to pay up to £220k on tax owed. Per @DanNeidle the underpayments mean the firms are vulnerable to HMRC investigation which could lead to required repayment plus interest and fines.
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@Sophthecatsmum @Gabriel_Pogrund Rayner resigned from cabinet & is still an MP as is Tice who had no government position
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@Gabriel_Pogrund He should still resign since he hounded Angela Rayner till she did the same.😡
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Tice, who said Angela Rayner would resign if she had "any moral decency", did not respond to our latest inquiries about his tax affairs or even acknowledge receipt. Nor did his lawyer or Nigel Farage's team.
However, he has now posted a statement saying of his wider affairs: "Naturally I am always happy to put things right and if numbers need rechecking, of course I will pay what is owed - be that more or less."
Where does that leave us?
- Story #1: Tice avoided £600k in corporation tax by classifying his company as a real estate investment trust in unusual circumstances and benefitting from a loophole meaning he did not have to meet technical rules that otherwise applied. Tice accepts this, and said everyone should seek to avoid as much tax as legally possible.
- Story #2: Tice broke the law by failing to pay at least £92k - or, per further analysis by @DanNeidle, £120k - in withholding tax before paying incorrectly large dividends to himself and his off-shore trust in Jersey. He says the dividends he personally received meant he ultimately paid more income tax, meaning HMRC received the money it was owed, or even more. He has not provided any evidence for this or addressed what tax the trust paid. He has dismissed the fact the law was broken - and the accompanying fact that the company still has an unsettled tax bill - as a "technicality". Farage, when asked to evidence Tice's claim that HMRC received equal/more tax, snapped at a reporter and demanded she provide a "lecture" on the nature of real estate investment trusts.
- Story #3: Tice failed to pay ~£100k in corporation tax on dividends deposited in four shell companies he owned and which were part of a group which donated huge sums to Reform. Last month he gave us contradictory stories as to why dividends were not taxed. a) He said they were tax-exempt. (They were not in this case.) b) He said the parent group suffered losses allowing tax bills to be offset. (This is not the case.) He did not respond to further inquiries which we sent yesterday morning.
Overall, the evidence indicates Tice used unusual measures to avoid £600k, and failed to pay up to £220k on tax owed. Per @DanNeidle the underpayments mean the firms are vulnerable to HMRC investigation which could lead to required repayment plus interest and fines.
Gabriel Pogrund@Gabriel_Pogrund
Exclusive: Richard Tice failed to pay £100k in tax, benefiting his investment firm — which then gave big sums to Reform Tice gave contradictory reasons for why four shell companies paid zero tax. @DanNeidle says they flouted "basic" rule, face HMRC probe thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…
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@hughjbrown @DanNeidle Rayner resigned from cabinet but remains an MP - so does Tice who has no government position to resign from
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@DanNeidle Rayner said she would put things right, but that wasn't enough for Tice, he still thought she should resign. So why hasn't Tice resigned? Why hasn't Farage sacked him?
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