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The news refers to London’s Metropolitan Police expanding an ongoing criminal inquiry to investigate allegations that Nigel Farage’s political party, Reform UK, broke electoral laws regarding foreign funding.The investigation was triggered by an undercover sting conducted by the investigative outfit Verbatim and broadcast by Channel 4 News. In the footage, undercover reporters posed as a wealthy American financier and his UK-based son looking to fund Reform UK. Under UK electoral law, political donations from foreign nationals or entities are illegal.The footage showed senior figures within the partyincluding Dan Jukes (a close aide to Farage) and James Orr (head of policy)discussing methods to channel money from overseas into the party, including routing donations through intermediaries, as well as secretly funding approximately £32,500 in opinion polls that were subsequently published in British media. While Nigel Farage appeared in parts of the footage, he and the party strongly denied breaking any laws, calling the sting an operation of entrapment.Following the broadcast, both Jukes and Orr stepped down from their roles, and several political opponents formally referred the evidence to law enforcement. On September 9, 2026, the Metropolitan Police announced that detectives from its Special Enquiry Team had reviewed the material and incorporated the allegations into an existing, wider investigation into political donations linked to the party.