Two senior Reform UK officials resign as Farage faces fresh foreign donations scandal

British hard-right leader Nigel Farage sought to play down a fresh donations scandal Friday sparked by an undercover sting operation that overshadowed his Reform UK party's annual conference. Farage had been hoping to use the gathering to move on from damaging controversies over financial gifts by setting out the policies of any future Reform government, including cooperation with France's far-right anti-immigrant National Rally (RN) party. But just hours before Farage's keynote address, two senior Reform officials resigned following an investigation aired by Channel 4 News. Watch more‘Major potential breaches of British election law’: Inside Channel 4’s investigation into Reform UK The investigation showed two senior party figures arranging for a US company to pay more ⁠than £30,000 for three opinion polls commissioned by the party. The report also included undercover footage that showed the party discussing steps to secure a £500,000 foreign donation – banned under UK electoral law. Posing as wealthy donors from the United States with British connections, the undercover team from investigative group Verbatim said it spent a year ‌speaking to officials in Reform about possible don...