{"id":1186,"date":"2025-09-04T11:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T11:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/1186\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T11:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T11:58:08","slug":"complaint-over-nigel-farages-fishing-boat-not-upheld-by-watchdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/1186\/","title":{"rendered":"Complaint over Nigel Farage&#8217;s fishing boat not upheld by watchdog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards has quashed a complaint that alleged Nigel Farage failed to register an interest in a commercial fishing boat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards Daniel Greenberg found that the fishing boat was owned by a company of the Reform UK MP for Clacton and was not a personal asset.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">His inquiry found Farage did not receive any income from fishing boat and the commissioner ruled it was therefore <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/globalassets\/documents\/pcfs\/not-upheld\/mr-nigel-farage-mp-not-upheld-2025.pdf\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 bGFWdi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;not a registrable interest&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The complaint was made after Farage said on 23 April: &#8220;I&#8217;m the only member of Parliament that has a financial stake in the commercial fishing industry&#8230; I own a commercial fishing boat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Farage told the commissioner the boat was owned by Thorn In The Side Limited and was operated by his son Tom Farage &#8220;who also owned the commercial fishing licence&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Farage told the commissioner: &#8220;I have received no income at all from the vessel, which is a depreciating asset. My company owns many other things, including historical objects, property etc.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Under parliamentary rules, MPs have to declare outside financial interests and failure to do so can lead to a sanction such as updating the register correctly or suspension from the House of Commons for more serious errors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards has quashed a complaint that alleged Nigel Farage failed to register an interest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":["post-1186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}