Nigel Farage received £270,000 from gold marketer he promotes
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage received £270,000 from Direct Bullion, a gold marketer for which he is a brand ambassador. The payment, double his 2025 fee, appears in the latest register of MPs' interests.
Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK, received £270,000 in May from Direct Bullion, a gold marketer for which he serves as a brand ambassador. This is his single largest payment as an MP.
The amount is double his fee from 2025 and appears in the latest entry in parliament’s register of interests, published on Tuesday. Farage has previously faced criticism for his £400,000-a-year second job promoting Direct Bullion, urging people to buy physical gold for their pension pots.
The payment comes as Farage continues to be under pressure over a separate £5m gift from Christopher Harborne, a Thailand-based crypto investor who has donated millions to Reform UK. Farage initially claimed the gift did not need to be registered, but he now faces a formal investigation by the parliamentary standards watchdog. He has given varying accounts, first saying the money was for personal security and later calling it a reward for Brexit.
Earlier payments include £91,200 for four hours of work in January 2025 and £135,000 nine months later for an estimated 12 hours over three months. In June, he also received £18,402 for about six hours of presenting for GB News. Other declared work includes speaking engagements for Imperial Independent Media, a US-based consulting firm, and social media work for Google and X.
Reform MPs Lee Anderson and Richard Tice also registered social media work for X.
