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And I'm Wilfred Frost. It's Monday the 8th of December. This is what's happening today.

Reform UK has rejected claims that Nigel Farage broke electoral law during his campaign in Clacton.

We'll explain that story.

Ukraine's president, Zelensky, is heading to Downing Street later for talks on peace proposals

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So Nigel Franch has been reported to the police, and this is over claims that he denies, that he spent too much money getting elected to Clacton.

There's some pretty strict rules on how much money people can spend.

The person who's made the referral is a former member of his campaign team. It's a guy

called Richard Everett. So he used to be a reform counsellor. He also, of course, helped to get

Farage elected. He won his first parliamentary seat in Clefton. And he submitted these documents

to the Met Police that he says show an overspend. Now, Reform UK, I should say,

totally dispute this claims. They say that they're inaccurate and that they come from a

disgruntled former counsellor in Richard Everett. So just to give you their statement, they say

it's a disgruntled former counsellor. He was expelled several months ago. The party denies breaking electoral law. We look forward to clearing our name. But, yeah, Matt, looking into it.

You're met looking into it. Of course, so far, they've just been referred to the police. So nothing beyond that yet, any charges at all or anything like that.

Just to remind people, you know, there's local spending limits in an election and central

spending limits.

The local spending limit for Clacton for that election was £20,660.

And what's alleged is that they went over that and they didn't charge some things that

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