Nigel Farage’s £5 million “reward” from crypto billionaire | Will and Anoosh
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Nigel Farage’s £5 million “reward” from crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne, the NHS “I feel lucky” syndrome and the Reform councillor who wants us to crack down on extra terrestrial activity.
Will Dunn and Anoosh Chakelian round up the stories of the week.
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| 0:00.0 | The New Statesman. |
| 0:05.7 | I'm Anoush Shaqueline and you're listening to The Politics Show from The New Statesman. |
| 0:10.1 | And I'm here with my colleague Will Dunn for our weekly roundup. Hi Will. |
| 0:13.5 | Hello. |
| 0:14.4 | Our first category is Bank Statement of the Week. |
| 0:18.0 | And Will, you've written about this. |
| 0:19.4 | Nigel Farage, who received £5 pounds from the crypto billionaire Christopher Harbourn, |
| 0:25.1 | who you've written very well about in the past. |
| 0:27.2 | He failed to declare this money. |
| 0:29.4 | And he says it's because it was personal gift in it that he didn't expect. |
| 0:33.1 | It was just a lovely present from a friend. |
| 0:36.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:36.6 | Nice friends, if you can get them. Yeah. Yeah. I mean also if you can pop around to their house in Thailand and, you know, even better. |
| 0:45.8 | Sit watching the, the waves roll in as your bank account swells with patriotic fervor and cash. Yeah, yeah, he said it was a gift. |
| 0:58.0 | And then he said it was a reward for campaigning for Brexit for 27 years. But yeah, so Farage |
| 1:05.4 | has spent quite a lot of time doing, well, this he said was a gift and that's why he didn't have to |
| 1:13.1 | declare it, but he has also declared a great deal of income from other sources since becoming an |
| 1:18.4 | MP. He spent more than 1,500 hours working for people other than the people of Clacton. |
| 1:27.2 | And he, yeah, so he's done a lot of work for things like gold companies, |
| 1:36.4 | cryptocurrency companies, things like public speaking engagements. |
| 1:40.1 | He makes a lot of money from GB News. |
| 1:42.9 | And yeah, so I thought it would be interesting to take a look |
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