{"id":725879,"date":"2026-08-03T11:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T11:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/725879\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T11:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T11:15:09","slug":"standards-watchdog-investigating-reform-uks-richard-tice-richard-tice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/725879\/","title":{"rendered":"Standards watchdog investigating Reform UK\u2019s Richard Tice | Richard Tice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Britain\u2019s \u2060parliamentary \u2060standards watchdog is \u200binvestigating \u2060Reform UK\u2019s \u2060deputy \u200bleader, \u200cRichard \u200cTice, over \u200ca possible failure to declare \u200can interest, \u200bthe commissioner said \u2060on \u200bits website \u200bon \u200bMonday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The watchdog did not provide details of the allegation under investigation, aside from \u2060saying it was opened on 28 July and will be conducted by the parliamentary commissioner for standards, Daniel \u2060Greenberg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">An inquiry does not mean that rules have definitely \u200bbeen broken. Reform did \u200cnot immediately respond \u200cto a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Tice said the parliamentary investigation related to a complaint over \u201cwhether I should have referenced my register of interests at the start of a debate on UK democracy and Israeli influence\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Without naming the group he was referring to, he wrote on X: \u201cContrary to garbage in media: Standards Commissioner is considering complaint by anti semitic anti Israel lobby group over whether I should have referenced my register of interests at start of a debate on UK democracy and Israeli influence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cThe same anti Israel group failed to notify Commissioner that Ayoub Khan MP did not declare his substantial donation received from a pro Palestine group. Funny that \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The watchdog had previously been investigating the populist party\u2019s leader, Nigel Farage, over a \u00a35m donation he received from a \u200ccryptocurrency billionaire, but that inquiry was paused after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2026\/jul\/07\/nigel-farage-quits-as-mp-amid-scrunity-over-finances-clacton-reform\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Farage resigned his parliamentary seat<\/a> in July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">British police \u200bare investigating at least \u00a3500,000 in donations to Reform, which Tice has said is part of a \u201cpolitically motivated smear campaign\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">When he quit in July, Farage said the \u2060establishment was bent on discrediting him over accusations about his \u200bfinances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Reform \u200bhad been leading in \u200bthe polls for over a year until last \u200bweek, when \u200cthe governing \u200bLabour party \u200bcaught up with it and in some cases overtook it, according to different surveys, reflecting a bounce for the new prime minister, Andy Burnham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s \u2060parliamentary \u2060standards watchdog is \u200binvestigating \u2060Reform UK\u2019s \u2060deputy \u200bleader, \u200cRichard \u200cTice, over \u200ca possible failure to declare&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-725879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}