Farage launches preemptive attack on Commons standards committee, claiming it won’t judge him fairly – UK politics live

Reform UK leader also tells the Daily Mail he did not anticipate main parties would not stand candidates in Clacton byelection

Reform activists urged to switch focus from Manchester to Farage’s Clacton contest

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Reform UK activists have been urged to divert from the Greater Manchester mayoral byelection to support Nigel Farage’s “fake” contest 250 miles away in Clacton, Josh Halliday reports.

Nigel Farage’s difficulties got a lot worse at the weekend when the Sunday Times splashed on a big investigation saying that, before he had become an MP, he had received donations, including funding for staff to manage his social media accounts, from George Cottrell, a friend and adviser who has been convicted of a fraud offence in the US. These donations were not declared.