Nigel Farage faces questions over who funded £885,000 Clacton constituency home

Reform British leader Nigel Farage faces pressure to explain how his partner pays for an £ 885,000 home after asking more questions about the previous statement of a BBC investigation.

Clacton deputy, in the name of the joint Laure Ferrari’nin, saying that he bought with his own funds, saying that the election zone house to buy more than 44,000 £ more than £ more refused to avoid additional stamp tax.

He argued that he could afford to buy a four -bedroom house purchased without a mortgage because he came from a rich French family.

However, the BBC examined French property and company records and did not find evidence that Ferrari had a significant contribution to the purchase of households to his daughters.

Although Farage claimed that he was not involved, he said that an expert advice from a king of a taxation king received legal advice from the purchasing consultant.

If the reform leader was the source of the funds used for the house he had previously rejected, his partner’s purchase on his behalf and paying the lower stamp tax rate would be legal.

However, especially after criticizing the former Labor Party leader Angela Rayner for avoiding stamp tax last week, he would try to refrain from hypocrisy charges and tax.

He said his wife was the only legal and useful owner of the property.

For the reform leader, the property at the center of the questions is a four-bedroom house with a heated swimming pool in Essex.

It was acquired on 11 November last year. A few days ago, in a television interview, Farage said that he had changed contracts in a house where I will live there.

“Is this good enough? How much time does Keir Starmer spend in the election zone?”

Later, it was revealed that the 885,000 £ house was purchased by his partner Laure Ferrari, who was listed as the sole owner in the Land Register documents. For a mortgage, money was purchased without borrowing.

The ownership of the house caused Farage’s accusations that it has configured the purchasing process to avoid paying additional taxes.

If a stamp tax was paid for the purchase of the second home, it would have been paid £ 44,250 more.

Mr. Farage has the old marriage house in the Kent and two investment properties in Thorn Found in the district.

He also declared the ownership of a Surrey property in the records of the House of Commons.

The reform leader insisted that he did not give his money to buy and claimed that he could meet it because of his family fortune.

“I didn’t borrow any money to anyone. I didn’t money,” he said to the Mirror newspaper.

“Comes from a very successful French family and can meet him. Suitable, it works and loves it there.”

BBC News is investigating the claim.

His father did a shipping business in Strasbourg, France for many years, but the company was liquidated in 2020, and at that time he had more existence than obligations. Neighbors on the business site confirmed that it was not sold.

“Mr. Ferrari was a secret person who didn’t really talk to anyone here. His wife was very secret.”

“As far as I know, the company was liquidated when Ferrari retired years ago.”

His family Bertrand and Chantal live in an apartment worth approximately 350,000 euros (£ 302,000) in a Strasbourg suburb.

They and their two daughters have the old business facilities of the shipping company as well as the apartment purchased in 2006. These buildings are rented, and a local real estate agent estimates that it will not be produced more than 8-9,000 euros per month.

His 45 -year -old daughter Laure met Farage while working as a waitress in the late 2000s.

With the help of a bank loan, he had previously set up an outfit shop called Urban Flavor, but he had to return to the waiter to end the business.

In recent years, he has become the director of a consultant called Baxter Laois Limited, a registered owner of Farage’s Gin Brand.

However, the company’s latest accounts are limited to creditors more than 10,000 £ more than 10,000 and only more than £ 1,000 in assets.

A petition was opened in August to end the company and withdrew at the beginning of this week.

According to Land Register Records, Mrs. Ferrari used a London -based lawyer transport company to help her purchase.

Although he insisted that he had not been involved in the transaction, Farage recently hired his expert tax lawyer with a significant offer to end his own tax affairs questions.

Their lawyers Grosvenor Law, a leading tax king’s advice from the advice of the advice, he said.

“Grosvenor Law received written advice from the leading tax lawyer.

He said: “This recommendation concludes that SDLT (stamp tax land tax) has no payment, that the SDLT is calculated properly and that there is no basis to suggest that it avoids any inappropriate avoidance or tax according to the purchase process.”

Farage did not explain why the BBC was looking for expert tax advice, not during the purchase, but which it had recently understood.

The Law Office does not represent the person who is listed as the purchase of property.

It is legal for an unmarried person to give it to their spouses to buy a property in their own name or to transfer a levy in another way, and do not have a stamp tax.

Farage faced charges that he moved hypocritical and played a role in financing the purchase of his common house on behalf of his wife.

In a statement, the Farage spokesman said: “Laure Ferrari is the only legal and useful owner of the property.

“It only belongs to Laure and is purchased with its own funds. All taxes have been paid appropriately. Nigel has nothing to do with property.”

However, the spokesman refused to say whether the money used to buy property was passed to his partner and belonged to him during the purchase last November.

In addition, he could not explain why his wife’s comments on family wealth did not match financial situations.

After Farage entered a second house, he criticized former Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner and joined other rival politicians. It led to his resignation last week.

He said in his social media post: “You cannot host the secretary and you cannot avoid 40,000 pound stamps. It is so simple.”

And after Rayner’s resignation, he attacked the Labor Party by addressing his party’s conference on Friday: “Authority screams. He screams that it would be worse than a government, despite all the promises that it would be a new different type of politics.”

Labor Party President Anna Turley said: “Now there is much unanswered questions about the house she stayed in when she’s in Clacton.

He continued: “It should urgently come to the public about whether he has financial contribution to the purchase of this property or whether he has any financial interest in CT.

“An election zone is terrified to mislead the public for political gain in purchasing.

“However, if he deliberately fulfills this regulation to avoid paying the fair share of tax, which will be worse.

“Farage has recently had a lot to say about the tax affairs of other people recently, so it is right for it to offer evidence to prove that the story tells the whole story. At least the British people will expect.”