PULSE POINTS
❓WHAT HAPPENED: UK Police are assessing allegations that Britain’s Reform Party overspent on Nigel Farage’s 2024 general election campaign in the Clacton constituency (electoral district), per election spending laws.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Nigel Farage, the Reform Party, expelled former Reform Party councillor Richard Everett, and Essex Police.
📍WHEN & WHERE: The allegations pertain to the 2024 general election campaign in Clacton, Essex.
💬KEY QUOTE: “These inaccurate claims come from a disgruntled former councillor. The party denies breaking electoral law. We look forward to clearing our name.” – Reform Party statement
🎯IMPACT: The allegations have prompted calls for investigation by both the governing Labour Party and the formerly governing Conservative Party.
UK police have confirmed they are assessing allegations that Nigel Farage‘s Reform Party overspent on the Brexit leader’s general election campaign in the Clacton constituency (electoral district) last year.
Richard Everett, a former Reform councillor and member of the party’s campaign team, reportedly submitted documents to London’s Metropolitan Police, alleging that the party had exceeded the £20,660 (~$27,500) spending limit. Notably, Everett was expelled from Reform for alleged sexually inappropriate behaviour at a party office in Clacton, with the party dismissing him as a “disgruntled former councillor” with an axe to grind.
In a statement released on Monday, Essex Police said: “We are assessing a report relating to alleged misreported expenditure by a political party in connection with the 2024 general election, following a referral to us by the Met Police.”
The National Pulse Editor-in-Chief Raheem Kassam, a former senior advisor to Farage, has described the investigation as lawfare, predicting, “They’re going to try to do with Nigel Farage what they did with Marine Le Pen.”
I said it a while back. They’re going to try to do with Nigel Farage what they did with Marine Le Pen.
Allege some ludicrous breach of arcane EU rules a decade ago, and have some activist lefty judge try to ban him from office.
It’s authoritarian law fare of the highest order. https://t.co/a4YayBHIdm
— Raheem J. Kassam (@RaheemKassam) October 18, 2025
Le Pen, leader of France’s populist National Rally (RN) party, has been banned from running for office due to a technical breach of European Union (EU) spending rules while she was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP), which involved using parliamentary funding for party work.
Even Le Pen’s critics, such as liberal journalist Michael Crick, have conceded that the prosecution appeared at best selective, observing, “[Hundreds] of MEPs [and] ex-MEPs across the EU will be thinking of Le Pen verdict tonight: ‘There but the grace of God…’ Any half-decent political journalist knows parties across the EU, including UK, have been misu[s]ing [European Parliament] money for decades for domestic party purposes.”
Everett alleges that Reform failed to declare spending on campaign materials, utility bills, and office refurbishment during Farage’s 2024 campaign.
A spokesman for Reform has dismissed the allegations, stating: “These inaccurate claims come from a disgruntled former councillor. The party denies breaking electoral law. We look forward to clearing our name.”
Similar efforts to eliminate President Donald J. Trump, a longtime ally of Farage, from the U.S. presidential race in 2024, by claiming he was ineligible to stand as an “insurrectionist” or by imprisoning him, ended in abject failure, with the America First leader winning every swing state in a landslide victory.
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