Farage senior aide filmed suggesting way to avoid donations law - BBC News BBC Homepage Skip to content Accessibility Help Your account Home News Sport Earth Reel Worklife Travel Culture Future Music TV Weather Sounds More menu More menu Search BBC Home News Sport Earth Reel Worklife Travel Culture Future Music TV Weather Sounds Close menu BBC News Menu Home Climate World UK Business Tech Science Entertainment & Arts Health In Pictures More BBC Verify Newsbeat Politics Parliaments Brexit Farage senior aide filmed suggesting way to avoid donations law To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video can not be played Figure caption, Watch: Undercover reporters posing as party donors meet with Nigel Farage By Chris Mason , Political editor  and  Harry Farley , Political correspondent Published 3 September 2026 Nigel Farage's senior aide suggested a way to get around electoral law to secure a foreign donation of £500,000 for Reform UK, according to undercover filming broadcast by Channel 4. Dan Jukes was filmed meeting a man posing as the British-based son of a rich American businessman. Electoral law sets out that to be a permissible donor to a UK political party you must be a UK registered voter, or a company registered in the UK. In this instance, the son would be a permissible donor, his father would not be. The undercover filming was done by a group called Verbatim Investigations, which was founded by journalists from the Centre for Climate Reporting. Channel 4 News say they have verified the material they were given and chose to broadcast. Reform UK denies any wrongdoing and claims to have "been the target of a hoax perpetuated by foreign funded climate change activists". The reporter posing as the son of the American donor is filmed raising a concern that his father wouldn't be able to directly donate to the party within the law. Filmed standing outside a pub in Westminster, Jukes said "you do realise that you can do it?" Channel