Making cash for Nigel – Where is Reform UK getting its money from?

The Bunker

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

4.6 • 984 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK seems to be going from strength to strength – and running in politics isn’t cheap. So where are they getting their money from? Seth Thévoz speaks to Peter Geoghegan, author of the Democracy for Sale substack, to discuss where the cash is coming from and how it’s being raised. We are sponsored by Indeed. Go to Indeed.com/bunker for £100 sponsored credit. Listen to the latest podcast from Podmasters, Crime Scene, the truth behind true crime with Alison Phillips and Bernard Hogan-Howe: https://linktr.ee/crimescenepodcast www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Seth Thévoz. Audio production: Dom Delargy. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Music by Kenny Dickinson. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:48.1	Hello and welcome to the bunker. Your need to know on news and politics. I'm Seth Teville.
0:53.6	Nigel Farage's party, Reform UK, delivered a political thunderbolt, winning the council elections,
0:59.8	including seizing control of ten councils.
1:03.2	They also won their first ever parliamentary by-election in Runcorn and Helsby.
1:07.8	For months beforehand, reports had circulated about how reform were increasingly well-funded
1:13.3	and well-resourced. So today we ask, who funds Reform UK? Here to make sense of it all is the
1:20.5	award-winning investigative journalist Peter Gaghan, who edits the Democracy for Sale newsletter on
1:25.7	Substack. Welcome to the bunker, Peter.
1:27.9	Thank you very much, Seth. I'm delighted to be here with you. This is endlessly fascinating.
1:31.9	I mean, I'd really just like to kick off by asking what kind of people fund Reform UK?
1:37.1	Well, in some ways, the people who give reform money are very much like the kind of people who give money to British political parties in general.
1:43.8	We have a political system that effectively runs in private money.
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