Nigel Farage says £5m gift from crypto billionaire is ‘not any of your business’

Nigel Farage has said his £5m gift from a crypto billionaire is “not any of your business”, saying the cash from the British Thai-based businessman Christopher Harborne was “a purely private matter”. The Reform UK leader also said it was not hypocritical of him to attack Keir Starmer for receiving donations of glasses and suits, because Starmer had been “the leader of the opposition and I was a presenter on GB News”. Farage, who has called for a general election after Starmer stood down as prime minister , said he was not paid to promote cryptocurrency interests because he already backed changing the law. “Number one, I wasn’t in politics. Number two, I don’t believe there’s anything in the rules that says I had to declare it. Number three, of course, it is being investigated by standards , so perhaps I’d better not say too much,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. “And lastly, even if the UK, even if London became a centre for crypto trading, it would still be a minute part of the global market, and the fact that a marketplace would happen here would not influence the price directly in any way at all.” Farage said he “wasn’t in politics” in 2024 at the time of the donation, but the BBC interviewer Nick Robinson said Farage had been interviewed for 40 minutes on his podcast about a possible run for parliament. Farage said that was “a very, very difficult decision. …