Nigel Farage received £270,000 from gold marketer he promotes | Reform UK
Nigel Farage received £270,000 from a gold marketer for whom he was a brand ambassador; This is the largest payment he has received as an MP.
The reform leader has been criticized in the past for his £400,000-a-year second job promoting the idea of Direct Bullion that people should buy physical gold and put it into their retirement funds.
The payment of £270,000, twice his remuneration in 2025, was received in May and is included in Farage’s latest entry in parliament’s register of interests, published on Tuesday.
Labor leader Anna Turley said: “He pretends to be on the side of ordinary working people but in reality he is just in it for himself and will sell his time to the highest bidder.
“Instead of collecting payments from gold sales, Clacton should focus on putting more pounds in the pockets of its voters.”
It comes as the Reform UK leader continues to face pressure over a separate £5 million gift from Thailand-based crypto investor Christopher Harborne, who gave millions of pounds to Reform UK.
Farage said the payment, which the Guardian revealed in April, was a gift and therefore did not need to be registered under rules requiring MPs to declare potential interests in the 12 months before the election.
But he faces a formal investigation by the parliamentary standards watchdog. He gave a number of different explanations for why he took the money; He first said it was for personal security expenses, then said it was a reward for Brexit.
Asked about the pay, which equates to £22,500 per hour, a Reform spokesman said: “As previously reported and announced that Nigel Farage is the brand ambassador for Direct Bullion.”
Farage received £91,200 from the company for four hours of work in January 2025, and £135,000 nine months later for an estimated 12 hours of work over three months.
His latest engagement records also record that he received £18,402 for around six hours of presenting for GB News in June. Other reported work includes speaking work for Imperial Independent Media, a US-based consulting firm, and social media work for Google and X.
Reform MP and party chairman Lee Anderson also recorded social media efforts on behalf of X, as did Reform’s business, trade and energy spokesman Richard Tice.
