Andy Burnham was just starting to face awkward questions about his plans as Britain\u2019s prime minster last week. Instead, his biggest rival, Nigel Farage, ended up being the one under greater pressure to explain.<\/p>\n
Footage aired by a British television network on Thursday night showed the Reform UK leader and two of his most senior aides discussing with an undercover journalist how to avoid campaign finance laws to get foreign money into the right-wing populist party\u2019s coffers. The bombshell report broadcast by Channel 4 rekindled concerns about Reform\u2019s formidable fundraising operation and threw into chaos Farage\u2019s efforts to mount a political counterattack against Burnham\u2019s reinvigorated Labour Party.<\/p>\n
Within hours, Farage was publicly parting ways with the two aides, including Dan Jukes, an adviser so close that some Reform insiders have likened him to the leader\u2019s adopted son. The Reform leader ended up using his annual conference \u2014 an event intended to showcase political strength \u2014 to insist he has done nothing wrong and chide aides for engaging in \u201cloose pub talk\u201d and behavior that was \u201cinjudicious at best.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andy Burnham was just starting to face awkward questions about his plans as Britain\u2019s prime minster last week.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1188941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[8916,748,393,4884,8414,384,1144,386,712,15689,16,15,1764],"class_list":["post-1188940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","category-united-kingdom","tag-andy-burnham","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-labour","tag-nigel-farage","tag-northern-ireland","tag-reform-uk","tag-scotland","tag-u-k","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wales"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117221925065667182","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188940","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=1188940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1188941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}