‘I wasn’t even listening,’ Farage says of donations scandal meeting

Reform UK leader maintains innocence in overseas funding controversy on last day of party conference

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Nigel Farage has claimed that he “wasn’t even listening” during a meeting at the centre of a controversy about whether his party considered evading the law on accepting donations from overseas.

The Reform UK leader also claimed that he knew donation law “better than anybody” during interviews as he sought to salvage the final day of his party conference from the fallout that has already cost him two of his closest aides.