{"id":67773,"date":"2026-07-27T19:22:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T19:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/67773\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T19:22:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T19:22:31","slug":"the-gaping-loopholes-used-by-billionaire-to-bankroll-reform-uk-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/67773\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;gaping loopholes&#8217; used by billionaire to bankroll Reform UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"The &#039;gaping loopholes&#039; used by billionaire to bankroll Reform UK\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dUMvEBlIzlA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe &#8216;gaping loopholes&#8217; used by billionaire to bankroll Reform UK<br \/>\n<br \/>\nMeet Christopher Harborne, the billionaire bankrolling Reform UK.<\/p>\n<p>He moved to Thailand in the 1990s and became a Thai citizen, but he has pumped over \u00a325 million into UK political parties, including \u00a315 million to Reform UK and \u00a310.2 million to the Brexit Party.<\/p>\n<p>How is he legally allowed to do this?<\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<\/p>\n<p>**CONTINUE YOUR TEXT HERE**<\/p>\n<p>A Channel 4 News investigation can reveal that Harborne specifically re-registered as a UK resident to cast his vote for the Brexit referendum whilst declaring just a few months later in a UK company documents that he lived in Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a move that legally enabled him to pump tens of millions into British politics.<\/p>\n<p>Experts are calling it a &#8220;gaping loophole&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>We look into the man behind Nigel Farage&#8217;s \u00a35 million gift.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\n0:00 &#8211; Intro<br \/>\n1:23 &#8211; Who is Christopher Harborne?<br \/>\n2:26 &#8211; Harborne&#8217;s influence on British politics<br \/>\n4:26 &#8211; &#8220;Gaping loopholes&#8221;<br \/>\n5:24 &#8211; Do people of Hampshire know Harborne?<br \/>\n7:54 &#8211; What checks did the council make?<br \/>\n9:08 &#8211; Questions about determining residency<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Get more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/ <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe<\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The &#8216;gaping loopholes&#8217; used by billionaire to bankroll Reform UK Meet Christopher Harborne, the billionaire bankrolling Reform UK.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[11],"tags":[366,352,365,56755,724,37726,49990,326,361,50105,325,279,341,267],"class_list":["post-67773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-channel-4-news","tag-channel-4","tag-channel-4-news","tag-channel4","tag-christopher-harbourne","tag-farage","tag-farage-news","tag-harborne","tag-nigel-farage","tag-reform","tag-reform-farage","tag-reform-uk","tag-uk","tag-uk-news","tag-uk-politics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116993592220222983","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}