\u201cLove my country\u2026 Not ashamed or afraid to be patriotic\u201d says the biography section of Nathan Gill\u2019s account on X, below a photo of Gill campaigning with Reform leader Nigel Farage and his deputy, Richard Tice.<\/p>\n
But patriotic on behalf of which country? On Friday, September 26, Gill \u2013 once Reform\u2019s leader in Wales and before that an MEP for Farage\u2019s Brexit Party \u2013 pleaded guilty to eight counts of bribery relating to speeches he made in favour of Russia in the European parliament. The court was told that he had been paid to make the statements by pro-Kremlin Ukrainian Oleg Voloshyn.<\/p>\n
Gill, who now faces a substantial jail sentence, is a long-time ally of Farage and his guilty pleas will be a huge embarrassment to Reform\u2019s leader ahead of next year\u2019s elections to the Welsh assembly, where the party is leading in polls.<\/p>\n
In 2016, Farage said: \u201cI have worked with Nathan Gill over a period of years and he\u2019s been terrific, he\u2019s never, ever, let me down. He\u2019s as honest as the day is long.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cLove my country\u2026 Not ashamed or afraid to be patriotic\u201d says the biography section of Nathan Gill\u2019s account…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,386,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-453124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-reform-uk","15":"tag-scotland","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115271364989420090","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453124","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=453124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}