{"id":761704,"date":"2026-09-06T08:50:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T08:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/761704\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T08:50:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T08:50:20","slug":"nigel-farage-denies-wrongdoing-over-foreign-donor-talks-on-sunday-with-laura-kuenssberg-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/761704\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigel Farage denies wrongdoing over foreign donor talks on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg – live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Parliament returns, so does Sunday with Laura Kuenssbergpublished at 08:45 BST<\/p>\n

08:45 BST<\/p>\n

Welcome back from Parliament’s summer recess with the return of Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.<\/p>\n

In the hot seat is Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, who’s appearing after his party wrapped up its annual conference in Birmingham yesterday.<\/p>\n

The event was overshadowed by the departures of two senior Reform staffers, after undercover filming by Verbatim Investigations broadcast by Channel 4 News showed them talking about how to get money to the party from an American donor and asking a fake company to pay for polling.<\/p>\n

Former chief of staff Dan Jukes has denied wrongdoing and ex-head of policy James Orr says he will co-operate fully with an internal investigation. Reform UK claims to have “been the target of a hoax perpetuated by foreign funded climate change activists”.<\/p>\n

Farage denies Reform has broken any laws – and in an interview with Kuenssberg, he says: “I am not a compliance officer. I was in the middle of canvassing in the Clacton by-election. I turn up. I frankly wasn’t even listening.”<\/p>\n

You can read more about the investigation – and the questions it’s raising for the party – over here<\/a>, and we’ll have more from his interview later on in the show.<\/p>\n

\"Britain'sImage source, Reuters<\/p>\n

Elsewhere on the programme, we’ll hear from Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds and newly-appointed shadow chancellor Andrew Griffith.<\/p>\n

Appearing on this week’s panel are political scientist Francis Fukuyama, broadcaster Jeremy Vine and journalist Anna Isaac.<\/p>\n

We won’t bring you regular text updates today but you can watch live at the top of the page from 09:00 BST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Parliament returns, so does Sunday with Laura Kuenssbergpublished at 08:45 BST 08:45 BST Welcome back from Parliament’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-761704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761704","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=761704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}