{"id":202548,"date":"2026-07-12T11:34:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T11:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/202548\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T11:34:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T11:34:28","slug":"reform-donor-lost-thousands-betting-on-iran-and-starmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/202548\/","title":{"rendered":"Reform donor lost thousands betting on Iran and Starmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p role=\"text\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"is_Paragraph font_caslonIonic _dsp-inline _bxs-border-box _ww-break-word _mt-0px _mr-0px _mb-0px _ml-0px _ff-f-family _fw-f-weight-3048 _fs-f-size-18 _lh-f-lineHeigh3500605 _col-grey_600 _select-auto _ws-normal\">Last weekend the Sunday Times revealed that 32-year-old Cottrell had provided Farage with support including for social media campaigns and security. The Guardian subsequently revealed that two loans from Cottrell to deputy Reform leader Richard Tice, and a \u00a31m donation from his mother Fiona Cottrell to Reform fundraising vehicle Britain Means Business, which is owned by Tice, had been referred to the National Crime Agency through suspicious activity reports (SARs). These are a formal mechanism by which banks, solicitors and other regulated parties can send the NCA details about \u201cknowledge or suspicion of money laundering\u201d. They are not evidence of criminal activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last weekend the Sunday Times revealed that 32-year-old Cottrell had provided Farage with support including for social media&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[3528,34,2201,14412],"class_list":["post-202548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-finance","tag-iran","tag-nigel-farage","tag-reform"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116906797466553486","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}