insisted he could spend the \u00a35m \u201con cars if [he] wanted to\u201d<\/a>, he told journalists questioning him that what he did with the money is \u201cnone of your business\u201d. <\/p>\n![\"David](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2270753713...jpeg\")
David Bull said that being chair of Reform UK nearly killed him (Getty)<\/p>\n
The interview prompted fresh questions about the cash, which Mr Farage has previously insisted was to pay for private security for the rest of his life, but later claimed was also a \u201creward for campaigning for Brexit for 27 years\u201d. <\/p>\n
After a year of riding high in the opinion polls, it has been a difficult few weeks for Reform. <\/p>\n
The party also suffered a major setback last week when it lost the Makerfield by-election to Labour\u2019s Andy Burnham. <\/p>\n
Dr Bull was Reform\u2019s chair for just under a year, before he was replaced by Lee Anderson last month.<\/p>\n
This morning he said he had stepped down from the role as he was \u201cphysically very unwell\u201d, adding that the job \u201cnearly killed me off\u201d. <\/p>\n
He spoke of the difficulty of building a political party as he also addressed the rise of Restore Britain, which is outflanking Reform on the right of British politics.<\/p>\n
Dr Bull warned: \u201cI think we\u2019ve been on such a rollercoaster, and to build a political party, it\u2019s quite interesting.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will just mention Restore and Rupert Lowe, for example. I think what Rupert\u2019s finding is that to build a political party is incredibly difficult.\u201d <\/p>\n
Westminster\u2019s standards watchdog is now looking into whether Mr Farage broke Commons rules by not declaring the \u00a35m donation after his election in 2024. <\/p>\n
If the probe finds he committed a serious breach of parliament\u2019s rules, he could be suspended from the Commons. A suspension of 10 days or more could trigger a recall petition, which could potentially see him forced to fight his Clacton seat again. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1051880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[254479,748,288977,47671,71774,31,14235,393,4884,44888,1144,17742,457,2249,268099,285,20885,386,712,16,15,134941,1764],"class_list":["post-1051879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","category-united-kingdom","tag-aberdeen-scotland","tag-britain","tag-chairperson","tag-color-image","tag-david-bull","tag-democracy","tag-election","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-horizontal","tag-northern-ireland","tag-one-person","tag-people","tag-photography","tag-political-rally","tag-politics","tag-politics-and-government","tag-reform-uk","tag-scotland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-waist-up","tag-wales"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116817849873668880","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1051880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Farage has been accused of going to ground after it emerged he had accepted a \u00a35m gift from a crypto-billionaire (PA)<\/p>\n