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EXCLUSIVE: Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

Nigel Farage has finally admitted that Nathan Gill, the former MEP convicted of bribery, was one of his closest aides. But the Reform UK Leader’s claim that he didn’t know about Gill’s association with ‘Moscow’s man in Ukraine’ stretches credulity to the limit. Peter Jukes investigates

‘Honest as the Day is Long’

Every picture tells a story.

After the former Welsh Leader of Reform UK Nathan Gill recently pleaded guilty to eight counts of bribery for receiving money to promote Kremlin narratives, Zia Yusuf, head of Reform’s Department of Government Efficiency, told the BBC that “most people in the senior leadership team have never really heard of the guy” and that he was just “one of tens of thousands of people” party leader Nigel Farage “meets on an annual basis”.

Then the photos began to circulate.

Sonia Purnell

Sonia Purnell's Perspectives – Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage

My occasional encounters with former or serving intelligence officers over the years suggest that they are prone to talking in riddles. But the sixtysomething greybeard I met late in 2016, when I was researching my Second World War spy book, A Woman of No Importance, spoke all too plainly.
Sonia Purnell

Britain’s Media Has Let Nigel Farage Reshape Political Journalism. Why?

The Reform UK Leader’s rise is not an aberration but the predictable consequence of an industry that has restructured itself around virality, writes James Bloodworth
James Bloodworth