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Nigel Farage has apologised to the parliament’s standards watchdog after failing to declare private payments on time on 17 separate occasions, which the Reform UK leader blamed on his “complicated and complex” outside interests.
The payments, totalling more than £380,000 and coming from his paid work outside parliament from companies including GB News and Direct Bullion, were declared late in the register of members’ interests over the course of last year.
The parliamentary commissioner for standards, Daniel Greenberg, said Farage had made 17 breaches of Rule 5 of the Parliament Code of Conduct.
He added that Farage had “acknowledged and apologised” for the breaches, and that “the matter is now closed”, though all of the relevant entries to the registrar would now be annotated, “so it is clear that they have been the subject of an inquiry”.
This is a developing story.