Did Nigel Farage lobby Bank of England on billionaire sugar daddy’s behalf?

The standards watchdog commissioner has received a request to investigate whether Nigel Farage lobbied the Bank of England on his billionaire sugar daddy’s behalf.

Racist hatemonger Farage and his Reform party have bagged massive wads of money from cryptocurrency billionaire Christopher Harborne, who lives in Thailand and has long backed the UK’s hard right. Farage in turn has acted like a crypto fanatic, promising a “crypto revolution”.

But it’s Farage’s efforts at the Bank of England that have now attracted increasing scrutiny.

Farage and the Bank of England ‘conversations’

As Keir Starmer has destroyed Labour and chased Reform votes, Farage and his party have come more and more into the spotlight. Farage has now been ducking journalists for months to avoid facing up to the scrutiny, particularly over the £5m ‘gift’ he got from Harborne (which was not at all for lobbying on his behalf, apparently).

With Harborne shaping up to try and have even more influence in UK politics, the parliamentary chair on ‘anti-corruption and responsible tax’ has asked standards watchdog commissioner Daniel Greenberg to look into Farage’s ‘private meeting’ with the governor of the Bank of England.

This Bank of England meeting happened in September 2025. Harborne, meanwhile, gave £15m worth of donations to Reform from August 2025 to February 2026. Farage specifically got his £5m wad of cash just before the 2024 general election, receiving two £25,000 payments from Harborne in January 2025 and February 2026.

Parliament’s code of conduct, the Guardian explained, says:

lobbying rules apply for 12 months after the reward or consideration was received.

The paper noted that Farage used his meeting at the Bank of England:

to urge its governor, Andrew Bailey, to drop plans for a state-run alternative to the digital currency that has made Harborne, his Thailand-based benefactor, one of the richest people in the world.

He then told a Zebu Live event he was “prepared to go to prison” in order to stop it from happening. And as anti-corruption and responsible tax chair Phil Brickell told the Guardian:

Before meeting the governor of the Bank of England, Farage openly championed Tether [a cryptocurrency Harborne reportedly holds shares in], criticised proposed restrictions on stablecoins and vowed to challenge the Bank’s approach. He has since claimed credit for persuading the Bank to soften its position

The bank has so far failed to provide further details about the meeting with Farage, according to the Guardian.

For most of us, it’s clear that Farage’s behaviour is unacceptable. The man himself, of course, denies he’s done anything wrong – as he would.

But will the standards watchdog commissioner agree? We’ll have to wait and see.

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