Nigel Farage racks up £151,000 in donor-funded flights to assist Donald Trump
Most recently, Farage attended an event at Trump’s Mar A Lago resort celebrating US Military Veterans just months before Trump’s vile slur dismissing the sacrifice of British troops who served in Afghanistan
Nigel Farage has taken frequent trips to support Trump, or organisations that support him(Image: AFP via Getty Images)
Nigel Farage has racked up more than £151,000 in donor-funded flights to support Donald Trump since entering Parliament.
Most recently, Farage attended an event at Trump’s Mar A Lago resort celebrating US Military Veterans just months before Trump’s vile slur dismissing the sacrifice of British troops who served in Afghanistan.
It has emerged that Farage was acting as an advisor to Hossein Ghandehari, an Iranian-born businessman, during his trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this week.
The Reform UK leader, who presents himself as a champion of “ordinary people”, spent much of his first year as an MP criss-crossing the Atlantic – often with wealthy backers picking up the tab.
In November, Nigeria-born Lebanese billionaire Bassim Haidar paid £54,921 for flights for Farage and two aides to attend a veterans’ event at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, according to figures compiled by the investigations site DeSmog
Last February (2025), GB News covered almost £8,000 for Farage to attend the pro-Trump CPAC conference in the US capital Washington DC.
Trump-linked trips dominate his entries on the Commons Register of Interests register. Last January (2025), crypto investor and Reform mega-donor Christopher Harborne funded £27,616 in travel and accommodation for Trump’s inauguration, after paying £32,836 last summer for Farage to fly to the States and campaign for Trump’s re-election.
Controversy surrounded this flight after experts suggested it could be seen as a donation to the Trump campaign.
Other entries include a flight costing £15,276 to meet tech boss Elon Musk , who has subsequently called Farage “weak”, and a donor-funded trip worth £3,353 to the New York Young Republicans Club — a group later disbanded after Politico documented racist WhatsApp from its members.
Another flight worth £9,3353, paid for by George Cottrill, saw Farage fly to an event held by the pro-Trump American group National Conservatism in Belgium.“ Nigel Farage is a fraud,” a Green Party spokesperson said. “He pretends to be a patriot, while jetting off to hang out with the American far right when Trump dishonours all the British troops that died fighting for America”.
