Nigel Farage has failed to declare 17 breaches on registering his financial interests on time in a verdict from Daniel Greenberg, the parliamentary commissioner for standards.
The 17 breaches by the Reform UK leader, who was elected in July 2024, added up to more than £380,000 in outside earnings.
Mr Farage has been accused of being “distracted with tempting failed Tory politicians into his party” and failing to “get the basics right”.
Reform have declined to comment on the verdict but a party source said that Mr Farage had been late in declaring the earnings.
Following the investigation, Mr Greenberg said that he had concluded the breaches were “inadvertent” and due to “staffing and other administrative issues”.
He added that the Reform leader had apologised and had promised to meet the deadline in the future.
But a Labour Party spokesperson said: “Nigel Farage is so distracted with tempting failed Tory politicians into his party that he can’t even get the basics right. He isn’t on the side of working people – he’s just lining his pockets when he should be standing up for his constituents.
“He boasts about making money ‘because I’m Nigel Farage’, raking in millions through various outside jobs. But he neglects to do the important work that hard-pressed taxpayers fork out for him to do.
“Labour will tighten the rules on MPs’ second jobs to make sure the public get the attention they expect and deserve from their elected representatives.”
Nevertheless one ally of Mr Farage pointed out that Sir Keir Starmer also admitted he had been late in making declarations before the election when he was found to have made eight breaches.
The interests that the Reform leader failed to declare on time included payments for his appearances on GB News and money earned through the Cameo app.
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