{"id":412269,"date":"2025-09-10T04:50:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T04:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/412269\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T04:50:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T04:50:23","slug":"nigel-farage-ordered-to-pay-10k-to-brexit-party-founder-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/412269\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigel Farage ordered to pay \u00a310k to Brexit Party founder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nigel Farage<\/a> has been ordered to pay more than \u00a310,000 to the original founder of the Brexit Party<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Catherine Blaiklock had brought legal proceedings after she claims she was forced out of control of the party ahead of the 2019 European elections.<\/p>\n

The county court in Plymouth awarded judgement in default after Mr Farage<\/a> failed to respond to papers sent against him. The court awarded the maximum \u00a39,999 in compensation plus \u00a3455 costs.<\/p>\n

\"Reform<\/p>\n

Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage (Andrew Milligan\/PA) (PA Wire)<\/p>\n

Ms Blaiklock told The Independent the papers were served to Reform\u2019s head office in London.<\/p>\n

However, a spokesperson at Reform said the party and Mr Farage had not been aware of the claim and not received any papers.<\/p>\n

\u201cNigel Farage will be instructing his lawyers to appeal against the judgement today,\u201d the spokesperson said on Monday.<\/p>\n

\"Catherine<\/p>\n

Catherine Blaiklock wants to be the ‘new face’ of Ukip and says she ‘100 per cent’ cannot be racist because she ‘sleeps with someone of Jamaican origin’ <\/p>\n

The Brexit Party name was initially registered by Ms Blaiklock, Ukip\u2019s former economy spokesperson. The Independent has previously reported how, in 2018, she was persuaded to do a deal with Mr Farage to effectively allow him to take over and lead the party as a limited company in April 2019.<\/p>\n

She claims she was promised a chance to run for parliament in Great Yarmouth in return, but the subsequent decision not to stand MPs against Tory MPs in that election meant she lost out.<\/p>\n

She resigned as a director after Mr Farage is said to have told her in a letter, ahead of the 2019 European elections, that her right-wing social media output would prevent them from being given a bank account by Metro Bank.<\/p>\n

She had been accused of being Islamophobic on Twitter and was at the heart of a media storm which threatened to derail the insurgent party as Westminster, as Theresa May\u2019s government were being ripped apart by the Brexit debate.<\/p>\n

The original trust deed for the party Blaiklock drew up in February 2019 would have given each member a share in it, but this was later abandoned.<\/p>\n

In 2024, Rupert Lowe was chosen as the candidate for Great Yarmouth.<\/p>\n

After the Brexit Party became the Reform Party, Mr Farage and fellow shareholder Richard Tice allowed the Brexit Party name to go in what appears to be an admin oversight. Ms Blaiklock bought it back last year.<\/p>\n

Ms Blaiklock has previously said: \u201cI inadvertently created a Frankenstein monster of a party.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nigel Farage has been ordered to pay more than \u00a310,000 to the original founder of the Brexit Party.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[141734,802,90026,748,141732,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,70275,141733,384,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-412269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-2019-european-elections","9":"tag-brexit","10":"tag-brexit-party","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-catherine-blaiklock","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-european","16":"tag-european-union","17":"tag-great-britain","18":"tag-mr-farage","19":"tag-ms-blaiklock","20":"tag-nigel-farage","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115178204982468041","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412269","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=412269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}