Farage faces questions over failure to declare use of donor’s helicopter

Nigel Farage is facing questions about why he did not declare his use of a donor’s helicopter to travel around Britain for rallies. The helicopter, which was used by Farage as recently as Friday after local elections across Britain, is the property of a company owned by Lorenzo Zaccheo, a businessman who gave Reform £25,000 last year. Farage was pictured in May last year getting off the helicopter in Kent after his party won the county council elections there, and data shows that it has travelled to and from other locations on dates when Reform rallies were being held. When questioned about why Farage had not declared the travel, Reform UK said the flights had been paid for “at commercial rates” and there was “no undeclared registrable interest” arising from those flights. But the party did not respond to follow-up questions about who paid for the flights and whether they were paid for by Farage himself, who may face an inquiry over an undeclared £5m gift he was given by the crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne . Farage has said the donation was to cover his personal security. The helicopter’s movements in 2025 were recorded in publicly available data analysed by the investigative news site Democracy for Sale. It comes after political opponents last week queried Farage’s claim that a return trip to the Maldives on a private jet linked to Harborne, the Thailand-based Reform mega-donor, cost as little as £25,000 as the Reform leader attempted to reach the Chagos Islands . …